From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D38015808D for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:32:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0C17E096A; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:32:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (mail.digimed.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5D9AE089C for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EB9427FDF for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:31:47 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:31:38 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on? Message-ID: <20220421143138.172bbd57@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3095ced50754b5bed1c6f2d54d58db0df055c041.camel@gentoo.org> References: <20220421124924.qpeyxgbpwepk2zki@localhost> <3095ced50754b5bed1c6f2d54d58db0df055c041.camel@gentoo.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.0 (GTK 3.24.33; x86_64-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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/X2dYExQR8Yye52J=De6t7sk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 X-Archives-Salt: 47b32ead-af8a-4aed-a8b7-9adf3d949407 X-Archives-Hash: d59c579ba587d7a9d9a800128e961c22 --Sig_/X2dYExQR8Yye52J=De6t7sk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:09:16 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > It's getting harder and harder. There's always GCC, which is going to > take you most of the day to build and will probably require -j1 to keep > you from running out of memory. But aside from that, the big ones are >=20 > * dev-lang/rust: pulled in by anything that needs SVG support unless=C2= =A0 > you unmask an old insecure version of librsvg or can tolerate half- > broken SVG support. This takes over 24h, requires -j1, and gets > worse every day because it bundles all of its (growing list of)=C2=A0 > dependencies. >=20 > * LLVM: needed by rust, some video cards, and certain picky packages. > This one is at least _legitimately_ large but has annoying point=C2=A0 > releases every once in a while that trigger a rebuild for little=C2=A0 > benefit. Again, expect ~24h. >=20 > * net-libs/webkit-gtk: if you're avoiding firefox (which is huge,=C2=A0 > and=C2=A0requires rust, which is huge), then this is your best bet fo= r=C2=A0 > a=C2=A0browser engine. Even if you don't use it directly, other apps > like evolution (mail client) can pull it in. It too is huge, just > not as bad as the others. This one finishes in something like 18h=C2= =A0 > for me. Firefox and Rust have -bin packages - not so lucky with LLVM and webkit-gtk. --=20 Neil Bothwick Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: The location of all objects cannot be known simultaneously. Corollary: If a lost thing is found, something else will disappear. --Sig_/X2dYExQR8Yye52J=De6t7sk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE8k9T/rX16EJxEKG692eFu0QSMJgFAmJhXLoACgkQ92eFu0QS MJiAig//cVCD3tiZkaBFikMt5QqlBEUrwBKKJ3O05TkqZCYJE86hfI/3owS/s4ch E26B8kmpXG5WYlDr7v20z5fsrLj2FwMVutPFt3hZLNZaRPA4W0+Phk2XkxSpPFtm oNI7jz27Bm0zzqeyYHeJYnz8LmdKc923RQjw4y6Uxh83IOEWavV5CgXn3HRMCZR4 zJzURi+mp7lDj7n7cfikMgZ2OpnbQ0gseNpZeKldYTFp5QKP3ENWrSf+vv3za55y JdrpcrL37f31pNwH3Pam9/x554Vi//b/lrHtis9EWfoa4iOQkIV/FPrDREfGEMY8 mYj1Y5qdGJGcUf5Cpz9G5kq+/rvK/nTjwy/3Brj+Ffhk7NjrUZ16XzLxRBH63njC p1SwtKB3yQsypiu0WmBuX2ZWKFrdHGr+QEpmMCjOZWUwm6X7P40JalrO4kOzV8ac UkqErdgZfQ+WCZ83gosVn93LDr2hqU9LUobTeP0SyFKzR9QRL6giKZmAXd2+muSX w/z+/xnV4tFePUcDHbYmP73jRb0dQscsxZqApQ5FBEXZR6Qw9669PZNipJzjQBHL jgKqd/t32D07zeD71OawQcaMFhF7gUeUWOxPM6jjczN2kR31EXoABILWV9iIVW0U cbLwgiQEmCO/0125IRfrpel2p/sWKxVRuLU8hGpeuxemMhZDzMo= =ZpcK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/X2dYExQR8Yye52J=De6t7sk--