Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

["Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, burlingk@cv63.navy.mil wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hemmann, Volker Armin
> > [mailto:volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:34 PM
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question
> >
> > On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, burlingk@cv63.navy.mil wrote:
> > > Ok,  Here goes...
> > >
> > >
> > > How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a
> >
> > full copy of
> >
> > > the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles
> > > directory of the average server?
> >
> > dunno, but huge.
>
>  <snip>
>
> > you will waste a lot of bandwidth and diskspace. The mirror
> > might hate you for
> > it. You will have lots and lots of packages like packageX.1.1,
> > packageX.1.1.0, packageX.1.1.1....
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
> I think that a better option may be to decide which software I want,
> and use emerge -ef <package> on each of the big packages to get just
> what I need.  Maybe setting up a stage three install, with just the
> kernel, boot loader, and portage and using 'emerge -ef world' first
> might have the desired effect as far as getting the base system first.
>
> :-)
>
> That would also let me make sure that I have an up to date portage tree,
> and just the files I need and maybe a few more. ^^;;
>
> Does that sound better, and less likely to piss off the mirrors? :P

yes ;)

but why not set 'parallel-fetch' in your make.conf? That way portage should 
download packages, while compiling?
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