Hi there, i've just learned what gentoo is and how it works and im pretty amazed (o: But here's my question now, can i use "normal" source packages for building or do i have to download the packages from your servers?? If i've understood this right, gentoo downloads the source and builds it with certain scripts, but i've already got some gigs of sources on my personal fileserver here and redownloading most of it seems unpractible to me... Jakob
but of course ! explore the /usr/portage directory `emerge rsync` keeps this sucker up-to-date ... what you want is /usr/portage/distfiles ... just copy/symlink/whatever all the files you already have to this folder if you have 1 dir of all the sources, just do mount -o bind /path/to/dir/of/sources /usr/portage/distfiles i have my distfiles shared via samba so that my linux boxes need only d/l once
