From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-57016-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1Gxmgv-000058-8A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:52:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBMFnw1A005132; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:49:58 GMT Received: from smtp13.wxs.nl (smtp13.wxs.nl [195.121.247.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBMFlQQC009528 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:47:27 GMT Received: from graskamp (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by smtp13.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.15 (built Nov 14 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JAO00J51MJ2XA@smtp13.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:47:26 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:45:40 +0100 From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? In-reply-to: <5bdc1c8b0612211626h67e4235la951daecf2aae02b@mail.gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200612221645.40471.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <49bf44f10612180647g6ac243ebm9cfa8b79a5aeb3b5@mail.gmail.com> <200612212228.07163.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0612211626h67e4235la951daecf2aae02b@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a67635cd-f294-4ff1-a4d3-1051d6a1c520 X-Archives-Hash: 18ddb150079a8f035deb90345d6d0c2d Mark Knecht wrote: > if binary packages were built and stored in some reasonable > location then I could probably prune out things that I'm not > worried about, But then, one day, you'll see that you've pruned something you shouldn't have, something that one of the things you did keep needs as a dependency. Better keep everything. Disks are gigantic these days, surely you can spare a gigabyte or two for binary packages. > I wonder if -b could be put in one of the > /etc/portage/package.XXX files Better go with the FEATURES=buildpkg that Bo pointed out, that is the mechanism that emerge provides for this situation. Myself, I don't use buildpkg nor default option -b, I simply keep a second partition around with a Gentoo system in a working state. If ever the primary gets messed up, I can reboot into the second one and use that until I have the first repaired. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list