From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlSD8-0005vo-R1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:48:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A14D8E0975; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 18:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE0AE0975 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 18:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D862D28A087 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:48:04 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:47:58 -0400 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus. Message-ID: <20090909144758.0ec69dcf@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0909090929g6cd56dcen8c581764cdbbbd18@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AA794D1.10104@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909090534y27e559e7k13a0fa013a8c12a6@mail.gmail.com> <4AA7A370.6010905@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909090552h62d413e6m3aad5bcae0727a7f@mail.gmail.com> <4AA7ACDF.904@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909090835jb95fbd4n5fe43f2c5c43b07a@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0909090840y243dbc3dl2de495f8f6f2b8a9@mail.gmail.com> <20090909170405.0f082c56@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <58965d8a0909090929g6cd56dcen8c581764cdbbbd18@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs29 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/ot5CH/LvQxsB2fZ9IKEWjIK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 41e48434-360e-4e43-8cbb-c8545faff72a X-Archives-Hash: 84882d41de22bc24fb485530d81f6629 --Sig_/ot5CH/LvQxsB2fZ9IKEWjIK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D"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. --=20 Neil Bothwick "Criminal Lawyer" is a redundancy. --Sig_/ot5CH/LvQxsB2fZ9IKEWjIK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqn+GMACgkQum4al0N1GQOaVwCghl9WAj62FdXA5PExgWh2tpaZ 3c4AoMlqOAw6l1wIljcCRLvA6jtgAW5J =njhw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ot5CH/LvQxsB2fZ9IKEWjIK--