On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:35, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:22:10 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > > Ask that when you've had a power failure ten hours into an OOo
> > > emerge :-O
> >
> > So you actually used FEATURES=keepwork for that?
>
> I tend to use "ebuild /pah/to/ebuild package" followed by "emerge -K
> package".
>
> > And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p
>
> Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages
> available. It takes around 15 hours :(

Ha, ha!  :)

     Sat Mar 18 21:22:50 2006 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.0.1-r1
       merge time: 23 hours, 30 minutes and 58 seconds.

As if that's not bad enough I remember a couple of years ago I tried it 3 
times in a row, with different fixes each time (some bug wouldn't let it 
complete the emerge).  I must have been at it for the best part of a week.
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Regards,
Mick