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* Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)"
  @ 2003-08-13 20:30 99%       ` Chris Gianelloni
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From: Chris Gianelloni @ 2003-08-13 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Alan; +Cc: gentoo-dev

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On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:15, Alan wrote:
> huge.  The slashdot doubters do have a point though, as the last time I
> upgraded KDE in gentoo it was a day or more of compiling, opposed to an
> hour or so (if that) of downloading debs/rpms and 5 minutes of
> installing them :)  That's the compromise though I guess :)

You could always install only the GRP packages and only upgrade them
that way.  In fact, even the GRP packages are more optimized than the
ones given out by the other distributions.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux

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2003-08-13 13:38     [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)" Philippe Lafoucrière
2003-08-13 14:07     ` brett holcomb
2003-08-13 15:03       ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-13 16:15         ` Alan
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