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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:44:36AM +0000, Mick wrote

> I've only got something like 625M RAM and around 4G disk space (for 
> var/portage).  I used 750M from that 4G for adding swap.  Eventually FF 
> compiled fine.
> 
> The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building from 
> source are constrained in resources to achieve this and have to resort to 
> installing bin packages.

  An external USB drive, with appropriate changes in /etc/make.conf,
plus an overnight build run might be the answer.

  Also, I'm trying www-client/midori as a browser.  It's based on
webkit, like most Android browsers.  Still a bit rough around the edges.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>