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

["Daevid Vincent" <daevid@daevid.com>]

> > He should have been here when I installed Gentoo on a 
> 200Mhz machine.
> 
> He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of
> other packages on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM, what other distro
> could turn that machine on a useful server other than Gentoo. Keep the

Yeah yeah yeah... Great ol' glory days... Guess what... It's not the 80's
anymore. 
CPUs are fast, but the programs are still monolithic and take days to
compile.

I fully agree (and have brought this up before months and years ago) -- I
believe we should have binaries available for the big packages like KDE, OO,
Gnome, etc. Ya'll that like to waste your time compiling can keep on doing
that, while the rest of us would like to get some work done.

The thing that's frustrating me right now, is that I just installed KDE 3.5
the other day, then upgraded to the new GCC. After a revdep, it apparently
has broken all my libc something or other and so I'm once again re-compiling
KDE to fix that! ...joy, only 176 packages to go... :-\

And for you all that want to say -- "switch Distros", your logic is flawed.
Just because I don't want to waste 3 days or more compiling KDE on a
2Ghz/640MB notebook, doesn't mean I don't want the other benefits of Gentoo,
like "emerge -u world" and the fact that when I do need to install from
source (like something that isn't in portage), it usually just compiles
fine. RedHat 8 NEVER worked that way for me.

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