On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:29:10 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:

> Sure, of course I'm not staring at the gcc lines scrolling by, but it
> gets in the way of compiling other things and causes unnecessary (in
> my case) CPU and power load for a program I use only rarely.
> Especially on slower machines, like my laptop which takes something
> like 4 hours to compile openoffice. In that case I think gentoo in
> general may not be the right choice (since, again, I spend more time
> emerging than I do actually using the laptop), but I don't like any
> other distro so whatever. :)

With my 900MHz Eee, I've copied its filesystems to a directory on
my desktop that I use as a chroot, with FEATURES="buildpkg", then use
emerge -k on the Eee (both have the same PKGDIR over NFS). So it still
takes 90 mins to install openoffice,and the startup speed advantage of
the source package is particularly useful on a slow box.


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