Ricardo Campos wrote:

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No probs here! We're standardising on it, run internal gentoo mirrors, and have developed lots of scripts and so on. Gentoo is the D's B's, IMO.

Never said it wasn't... Just takes a long time.

Ah... Running a download mirror internally helps a lot. I realise there's a lot of compiling to do, but pulling the source through a 100MB internal network is a whole lot faster than using even 512K cable, never mind a modem. We rsync early every AM.

Also, Gentoo portage has the facility for saving binaries as packages, so for identical machines, it's a doddle to build and apply strict version control.

Cheers, Laurie.