Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

[Gerhard Hoogterp <gerhard@frappe.xs4all.nl>]

On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:58, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Gerhard Hoogterp schreef:

> > 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..
>
> Oh, phooey,  Gerhard (sorry).

NP.. happily phooey away..;-) It wasn't my question and I already did my 
compile session.. Only 3 days due to some hurdles, toxml who dosn't know 
about its dependency on libxlst and hal wanting a newer kernel (but not MM- 
as it doesn't seem to have the needed feature.. so back to gentoo kernel.. ) 
But oh well, that's the goodness that's gentoo and sorting it out yourself 
gives on that soft glowing "almost-guru" feeling..;-)

> People, it's not like KDE just got huge yesterday or something.

Nope, but on a slow machine it IS big.. and trying to keep an 400mhz amd-k6 
somewhat up to date as a gateway (without KDE, but compiling glibc or 
apache/php/mysql isn't much fun either) I can see that's a problem for some. 
Of course the question is if they should run kde on such a machine, but 
that's up to them..  I don't blame them for asking. But seeing my hurdles 
while upgrading, I doubt that just binary kde packages is going to help them 
much. 

Gerhard
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