[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

[Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On 12/9/05, Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net> wrote:
> Chris White wrote:
>
> >On Saturday 10 December 2005 06:55, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly:
> >>
> >>I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of
> >>kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB
> >>ram. Is there an alternative to this?  I mean aside from using a
> >>lighter, faster compiling, X setup.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >sure, why are you emerge-ing the full kde?
> >
> >1) `emerge kdebase`
> >2) ???
> >3) Profit!
> >
> >I'm on a 1.6ghz, and being a dev I compile more packages than most users
> ever
> >will, have patience my son :P.
> >
> >Chris White
> >
> >
> He should have been here when I installed Gentoo on a 200Mhz machine.

He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of
other packages on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM, what other distro
could turn that machine on a useful server other than Gentoo. Keep the
compile times, I kinda like them because I can always tell my
neighboor all that text going down must be watched so I can't go and
fix his computer.

>
> Dale
> :-)
>
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>
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>
> 1:  Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now
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>
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