You really don't to keep the packages on your system. In fact you don't need to have anything in /usr/portage/distfiles not even during installation as long as you have an internet connection. There is a limitation on the cpu, though. The portage scripts are written in python and are very cpu intensive. If your processor is too slow (e.g. 33MHz) then portage syncs and package installations will time out on their internet connections when connecting to the default servers. There are ways around this but unless someone actually wants to do it, I won't get into it. ----- Original message ----- From: "Loren H. Burlingame" <there.can.be.only.two.apparently at gmail.com> To: "tclug-list at mn-linux.org" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:36:11 -0500 Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Gentoo system requirements In my experience, the main limitation is disk space when working with Gentoo. The portage tree is really big and the install packages are all kept around by default. On 4/18/06, dalan at visi.com <dalan at visi.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can find system requirements for Gentoo Linux > distribution? > > I'd like to install it on a very old system I have. I am already aware that it > may take several days for it to compile on the system but other than the > compile time is there any limitation on as to a minimum system it can run on? > > Thanks > Don S. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list