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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64
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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:08:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200705251924.45538.mereandor@gmail.com> (Roman Zimmermann's message of "Fri\, 25 May 2007 19\:24\:41 +0200")
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At Fri, 25 May 2007 19:24:41 +0200 Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@gmail.com> wrote:

> Am Freitag 25 Mai 2007 18:52 schrieb Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> As I mentioned, I would be dual booting into
>> *either* x86 or amd64.  There is only one computer (my laptop)
>> involved; all filesystems are local.
>
> Since the two systems can never be booted simultanously you can AFAIK share 
> all of those directories without problems. For DISTDIR this is especially 
> useful to save download time...

Right

> I'd recommend to use separate LOGDIR so you're able do distinguish
> what happened in which system.

Good point and since the log for each compilation is separate, no
extra space will be involved.

thanks,
allan
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