list of gentoo binary packages

Question

Installing gentoo in my old laptop is a painful work, as the weekly update can make the poor cpu extra hot.

To stick into gentoo with less emerge effort, I decided to use binary files for large packages e.g., chrome, firefox, libreoffice ect.

Just wondering if there is a list of packages that provides binary ebuilds in the repo, so that I can quickly identify these package and swap them into binary ones?

Besides

I think most of the ebuilds that install precompiled binaries have something like -bin in their names, so a search for that with something like $ eix -- -bin might get you part way there. – Jit

Answer 1

eix *-bin will give you all the bin packages in portage. There is also PORTAGE_BINHOST, which is probably what you are looking for.

Na

The *-bin package is in fact more than 50 where eix is able to display once. to enable eix display more than 50, I have to add EIX_LIMIT=0 in ~/.eixrc file. – Besides

You don't need eix - just find /usr/portage/ -type d -a -iname "*-bin" | sort. PORTAGE_BINHOST is only helpful if you have a binary package host set up. I don't know of any public ones. – Tangential

Answer 2

If you have a different machine, you could prebuild binary packages for the laptop and just merge it there. Another alternative would be icecream or distcc for offloading the work to a different box which does the compile for you.

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