On Saturday, 26 February 2022 14:19:15 GMT Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: --->8
> After reading the responses in the thread, this appears to be one way to > do it. Though I think adding it to a set could be a cleaner way? I > haven't tried all of the suggestions yet. In passing, I thought I'd mention that I keep most of my packages in sets: core, base, xorg, plasma, apps and utils. My world file only gets used for temporary or experimental things: it has one entry at the moment. I did that because of the frequency of reinstalling the system during the worst of plasma's instability. > > Oh - and for quite a while I used the -b -k flags a lot, mostly emerging > > on the slower system actually then installing the binary on the fast > > one. Sounds odd, but the faster, newer system had a habit of crashing > > during an emerge ... Both systems now gone to the Computer Centre in the > > Sky :-) > > That is certainly odd. You would assume that the faster system would be > the one compiling stuff for the slower one. I've been thinking of buying > a couple of old desktops for the sole purpose of being distcc slaves but > I don't know how much that would improve the compile times. Counter-intuitive, to say the least, and certainly not the way I do it. -- Regards, Peter.
