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 1El6J9-0000zK-PH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:06:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBAF5kHq013389; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:05:46 GMT Received: from frappe.xs4all.nl (frappe.xs4all.nl [213.84.219.245]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBAEwnSN032333 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:58:50 GMT Received: from bull (bull.thuis [192.168.0.1]) by frappe.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA0A37F95E for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:58:47 +0100 (CET) From: Gerhard Hoogterp To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde? Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:59:25 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <20051209222039.25958.qmail@web54611.mail.yahoo.com> <200512092335.43311@frappe.xs4all.nl> <439AB4CB.6070508@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <439AB4CB.6070508@planet.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: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512101559.25873@frappe.xs4all.nl> X-Archives-Salt: df8cf6fa-9319-45a1-93c7-6444cd7d4f2d X-Archives-Hash: 6abbeff99e3b0b6931643e014192ad75 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list