Playing with the Developer's Image (Random thoughts...)
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I spent the bulk of the afternoon and evening playing with the developer's image for the laptop. Among other things, I sat down and tried to write a HelloWorld application using "best practises" as far as I understand them.
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.
Guillermo on 03/19/2007 10:59 a.m. #
It's Nice to know that you are working on this!<br />
About the portage tree issue, there are some "tricks" you can do about it's size.<br />
In my desktop I have the tree in a sparse file and it has aprox. 231MB used.<br />
look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage <br />
and a radical approach at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_VERY_small_Portage_Tree_with_SquashFS_and_UnionFS<br />
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Regards.