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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> > > For those wishing to do a large number of compiling and development,
> > > would it be easier to have a completely seperate system that is
> > > strictly used for that purpose with all the slakware/d1 packages
> > > installed?
> >
> > If you have room, there is no good reason not to do everything on
> > one system.  However, in my case, my HDs are relatively small so
> > I run the compiler on a second machine and transfer just the
> > finished binaries to my main machine.

I was using a 500MB hard drive for linux and it filled up only because I
stored a lot of .tgz packages on it and compiled a bunch of large programs
in the process of compiling lynx statically (in order to make it usable by
people with older libraries).  I transferred my entire linux setup
(programs I was actually using, not leftover compilations, plus 50MB of
.tgz packages, plus 120M of compiler files for glibc 2.2.5) to other
computers and it was only 250MB.  This includes 12MB of documentation on
how to use something to do with databases that came with glibc, and perl,
and nasm.  I can't imagine needing 1G unless I wanted to run only gui
programs (of which I have only Opera, xpdf, and xv, and the package for
realaudio).  How do people fill up 3G?  Is it by using desktops (gnome or
kde or whatever it in fashion nowadays)?  Saving MP3s or 3 megapixel
photos?   I have about 500MB of DOS files including photos and zip files.

> 
> That's the senario I was considering as well. I expected that if you had
> enough HD space (3-5GB should be adequate, but one never can tell) then
> having it all on one system is no problem, but if you have limited space
> (at most 1GB as most BL users have I believe) then a seperate system/HD
> designed for development may be more in order. I'll keep that in mind as I
> put stuff together and rip it apart again.
> 
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