Re: [gentoo-user] Using binary packages

2024-01-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:12:05 GMT I wrote: --->8 > At the moment, the only way I can see to change portage's behaviour like > that is to keep editing FEATURES in make.conf. It's obvious, really: just pass FEATURES="-getbinpkg -binpkg-request-signature" to the emerge command. Or perhap

[gentoo-user] Using binary packages

2024-01-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, The new ability to pull packages from Gentoo servers is useful [1]. It does require something close to neutral USE flags, though, as well as -march and - mtune. My little Celeron box only took 19 minutes (!) to fetch and install gcc, not the 23 hours it took before. I'd like to be a