<quote who="Joshua J. Berry">
> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
>> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 05:29, Joshua J. Berry wrote:
>> > I'm going to be getting a new (Pentium 4) laptop relatively
>> soon...and I was wondering if it's possible to pre-build
>> P4-optimized packages on my Pentium 3 desktop.
>>
>> I doubt this is possible.  However, you might want to look at distcc
>> which will allow other machines to share the compilation load or bear
>> it entirely.
>>
>
> I know...but I can't really distcc with a laptop I haven't bought yet.
> :)  I just want a set of packages I can have to get it up more quickly.

Oh I see.  Well, in that case a GRP release would be preferable.  1.4 rc2
provides precompiled packages which you can unpack during install and have
a system up and running quickly.  Compilation, as you say, can come later.



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