Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bbgallery and template files

["Patrick Börjesson" <psycho@rift.ath.cx>]

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On 05/08/27 18:35, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk> writes:
> > Getting it done this morning is another matter, going several months
> > without an update is likely to put you a long way back, meaning lots
> > to compile.  Thankfully you can just leave it going in the
> > background. I almost always run
> 
> This appears now to have been a rather hefty understatement.  I'm not
> sure what time this morning I started on this but its now 6:34  where
> I am and its still running strong.
> 
> This seems a bit long.... Is this a normal amount of time for an
> update world to run (something like ten hours so far)?

Definitely if you've kept off an update for more than a month! Things
like OpenOffice, KDE, glibc, and all the other behemoths take "a while" (like
up to a couple of hours, depending on CPU) to compile each. So 10 hours
is definitely not something to worry about. 

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  Patrick Börjesson

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