Vendetta Solutions Notebook

Introduction

Distcc is a wonderful program that allows you to divide the task of compiling items among different comptuers. For example, let’s say you have three computers in your home network: two Athlon XP’s and an old Pentium Classic. It would be painful to compile X on the Pentium when installing Gentoo. distcc allows you to let the two faster computers contribute extra CPU cycles to help the old computer along. I could go into more details, but they are outside the scope of this document. This mini-HOWTO is very simlified and there are many other options for playing with distcc that can be found online. Hopefully this will be enough to get you started.

This how-to is trying to help with installing ebuilds which are not officially part of the Gentoo portage tree