From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EkqW5-0001vc-2V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:15:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB9ME2bp003017; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:14:03 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jB9MAFbR002422 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:10:16 GMT Received: from jmg.lan.dorkmail.net (c-24-91-80-56.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[24.91.80.56]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20051209221014015006t9j3e>; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:10:14 +0000 From: Jeff To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde? Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:08:28 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: In-Reply-To: X-Face: $*4.@~cehIbi&A]b.[KQI#x6=^ER@`D\[`cqTp?;jK*4|H}'zmDVutH5}j!`Du%IfR<=?utf-8?q?p+V=0A=093C=5FJ=7EcF3?=(oKa-FTR73LFnm;?5\2\}V!cI,-y+#jq:o#R[^d^>@5BY7phJQU5w=;j^`Yo[)=?utf-8?q?=0A=09k0Ne=3B=26eVZXd=5C=2E=5CT2-xpijK/XQX=60=5E8g3a8B?=(mz]`{^sm*-J[u{/'*BSf]]! Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512091708.28868.jmg_071769@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: a0fc5f62-5536-4547-a5bd-74bf5cda1722 X-Archives-Hash: c6ab165779c0456b2273bd7c714cc5ed On Friday 09 December 2005 16:55, Harry Putnam wrote: Check out Kubuntu dude. It's probably right up your alley. This is *not* an anti-Gentoo email. I 100% love Gentoo, and will continue to use it! (Puts asbestos suit back in the drawer...) > I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: > > I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of > kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB > ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a > lighter, faster compiling, X setup. > > I've been away from Fedora now for about a year I guess. I left > Fedora and redhat after nearly 10yrs because the updates had gotten to > where it was every few mnths a full reinstall. I liked gentoo because > one can update cleanly without a full reinstall, but now I'm losing > what seems even more time with really slow compilations > > Just on the face of it, it seems somewhat unreasonable with modern > software and powerfull computers, to need to spend this amount of time > just to get working software running. > > I seem to recall a kde install being a matter that consumed something > like 1/2 hr on Fedora. Must be that those packages are already > compiled? > > Is that an option for us? > > Is there some burning important reason why we need to throw away hours > and hours compiling kde? Wouldn't a binary distribution of kde serve > as well in most ways? -- Han Solo: Oh! I thought they smelled bad on the *outside*! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list