On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:44:36AM +0000, Mick wrote > I've only got something like 625M RAM and around 4G disk space (for > var/portage). I used 750M from that 4G for adding swap. Eventually FF > compiled fine. > > The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building from > source are constrained in resources to achieve this and have to resort to > installing bin packages.
An external USB drive, with appropriate changes in /etc/make.conf, plus an overnight build run might be the answer. Also, I'm trying www-client/midori as a browser. It's based on webkit, like most Android browsers. Still a bit rough around the edges. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>