Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> Maybe his/her laptop doesn't stand the >>> thermal output of its CPU when emerging or maybe he/she's the >>> administrator of a large company's network, trying to move every >>> computer system to Gentoo.
>> Check out distccd! > How does that help? Either every machine on the network spends time > compiling when it should be earning its keep, or they all pass all the > load to a compiler system that has to recompile the same code over and > over for each computer on the network. Using that computer to build > binary packages that the others can install is so much more efficient. It does help in the case that Florian mentioned, also quoted at the top, about the laptop... I agree that if you are going to build the same thing for every computer it makes sense to do it just once. I was thinking more about the laptop... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
