Re: Step by Step: Portage on Aurora

Jos van der Ende <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.aurora.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:37:48 -0400
Chuck Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:39:35PM +0200, Jos van der Ende wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:55:02 +0200
> > "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > And why would anyone here want portage on aurora? Why not simply install gentoo?
> > 
> > 'cause even installing a stage 3 Gentoo takes ages on, say, a SparcStation 10?
> > Been there and done that. Don't wanna do it again. :-)
> 
> So it doesn't take ages to compile stuff from Portage on a 
> SparcStation 10?

Depends. Small packages are perfectly doable.

> You are starting with Aurora, why not continue with 
> Aurora Extras for all your package needs?

If the Extras would only contain the packages I usually use... :-)


Jos
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