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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HCDTy-0003R5-Hf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:18:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0VBHJPA025398; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:17:19 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0VBDJbc020443 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:13:20 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B17E83450 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:20:01 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JTJmBy29sFrf for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:19:52 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C65583445 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:19:52 +0200 (SAST) Received: from deborah.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:15:03 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:16:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070130143551.6a4659bf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <45BF71A1.4010204@gt.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <45BF71A1.4010204@gt.rr.com> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701311316.01036.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Jan 2007 11:15:03.0937 (UTC) FILETIME=[0E4ECF10:01C74529] X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id l0VBDJbc020443 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l0VBHJPN025398 X-Archives-Salt: dd9281cf-6877-43db-a24c-12d39dfc7977 X-Archives-Hash: 19b7ef153706861041063fff1396bc76 On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > snip > > >> And OOo only takes 5=BD hours to compile.. :p > > > > Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages > > available. It takes around 15 hours :( > > So when are the Openoffice people going to break it into separate > packages (Write, Calc, etc.) like KDE did? This would get rid of > that nonsense of 15 hrs for a single package build. haha, good joke, nice one, you just made my day. Oh wait, you mean you're serious? Erm, well, I once did have a peek into=20 the OOo makefiles and what I saw there was .... scary. If no-one has=20 had the courage so far to separate out the packages, I really wouldn't=20 hold it against them. alan --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list