RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Farrell [mailto:dan@spore.ath.cx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:27 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question
> 
> 
> Not to mention you will spend much longer waiting for 
> everything to download then you'd have to wait for everything 
> do download on demand. It would probably be more desirable 
> for you to keep a network-shared distfiles than mirror the 
> servers.  Then there's the age-old 'static hosts file' 
> problem - just like the giant host file describing everyone 
> took longer to transfer than to become outdated back in the 
> glorious days of UNIX, it will also probably take longer to 
> dowload all distfiles ever than it will for those distfiles 
> to become outdated.  In conclusion, I think this is a rather 
> silly idea. 
> -- 

You are right I think.
If nothing else the handbook says that Gentoo etiquite says not
to rsync your portage tree more than once a day.  For the average
distro, once a week or even once a month is more than sufficient
to keep up with the packages in the main branch.

I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three
install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before
moving on from there.  After that, I can just make sure to watch
the FAQ's and walkthroughs when I install Xorg to make sure that
I do it right.  ^_^

Hopefully by the time I build the machine, either A) I can get
a decent nVidia card, or B) the ATI drivers will be released. ^_^

I preffer nVidia, but if the ATI drivers go open source (crossing
my fingers but not holding my breath), then that will be a good
option as well.

^_^

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