On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:18:03AM -0500, Craig Partin top-posted (grr): > I use Gentoo. Aside from being a nice distro generally, it handles > the dependencies well for mythtv. The portage system is killer. Once > you have a stable base, you just type "emerge mythtv" then wait for > three days. ;) > > Downside is compiling everything manually takes forever.
When you use Gentoo, distcc is your friend. You can farm out most compiles across your LAN to other machines. At work, I started building a new install for a P!!! that got a bit borked. The install was running in a 32-bit chroot on an Athlon 64 box (running Gentoo for AMD64), but distcc spread the compile across three other machines (the aforementioned P!!!, a Duron, and an Athlon XP). Building X.org, KDE, KDevelop, PostgreSQL, and some other stuff I don't recall offhand took just a few hours. At home, the MythTV box splits compile jobs with the file server. Building MythTV and several plugins (MythDVD, MythVideo, MythWeather, and MythWeb) takes maybe 10-15 minutes. _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
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