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?

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.

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.