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 1EkrKZ-0003ZO-Ff for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:07:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB9N4Zst022789; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 23:04:35 GMT Received: from web54609.mail.yahoo.com (web54609.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.49.179]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB9MwUXJ020989 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 22:58:30 GMT Received: (qmail 90955 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Dec 2005 22:58:29 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=zrFraH8gtXMVNqN6nyRCWKJYTH8InxugyGAKUBhdo8ppat3ZkQRCgjk9/hafYKnQwJCGxfEvN5g7gHEXZprr67uUREKdAFZeiZ3ZxMnzf0mDrtMKd91/CEJwezNbHx+uc8WJx7yvLwiljgDPBD/on6h9LF507XLWGIMr6HglC7A= ; Message-ID: <20051209225829.90953.qmail@web54609.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.226.46.10] by web54609.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:58:29 PST Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:58:29 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Smith Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200512092335.43311@frappe.xs4all.nl> 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-893370213-1134169109=:90941" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 181156d7-ad98-4180-a37c-3be1f13f25d1 X-Archives-Hash: 1204872814fb3e813cf3bac6b25da88d --0-893370213-1134169109=:90941 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Well, I learn something new every day. I recalled reading in one of the Gentoo install docs that there was no way to download binary cuts of apps. Since there are /some/, KDE would probably be a good candidate for this... I agree. (I spent around two days anxiously waiting for KDE to compile.) Another option for the original poster is ccache. The initial install will still take some time but recompiles are said to proceed much faster. ~ Tom Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote: > Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you > receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which > includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences--this is > what makes Gentoo what it is. While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a pre-compiled KDE isn't that alien to the world of gentoo.. Gerhard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --0-893370213-1134169109=:90941 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Well, I learn something new every day. I recalled reading in one of the Gentoo install docs that there was no way to download binary cuts of apps. Since there are /some/, KDE would probably be a good candidate for this... I agree. (I spent around two days anxiously waiting for KDE to compile.)
 
Another option for the original poster is ccache. The initial install will still take some time but recompiles are said to proceed much faster.
 
~ Tom

Gerhard Hoogterp <gerhard@frappe.xs4all.nl> wrote:
On Friday 09 December 2005 23:20, Tom Smith wrote:
> Gentoo is a source-based distribution. This means that the software you
> receive comes in the form of source code. It's up to you to install (which
> includes compiling) the software with your specific preferences-! -this is
> what makes Gentoo what it is.

While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are
already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big
packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a
pre-compiled KDE isn't that alien to the world of gentoo..

Gerhard
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