From: "Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:22:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C0B424.7060608@gt.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701311316.01036.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> snip
>>
>>>> And OOo only takes 5½ 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
> the OOo makefiles and what I saw there was .... scary. If no-one has
> had the courage so far to separate out the packages, I really wouldn't
> hold it against them.
>
> alan
>
>
LOL! Hadn't realized it was that bad. Wonder who the culprit is? The
original German group that wrote it or Sun when they got their hands on it.
Tony
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-27 13:16 [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles Vlad Dogaru
2007-01-27 13:29 ` Mick
2007-01-27 13:31 ` Dale
2007-01-27 16:40 ` Vlad Dogaru
2007-01-27 18:14 ` Jürgen Geuter
2007-01-27 19:05 ` Jeffrey Rollin
2007-01-27 19:52 ` Vlad Dogaru
2007-01-27 23:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-29 7:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-29 13:20 ` Albert Hopkins
[not found] ` <200701292112.22080.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-01-30 9:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-30 12:22 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-30 13:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-30 12:59 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-01-30 7:25 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
[not found] ` <200701301422.12957.bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
[not found] ` <200701301552.37737.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-01-30 14:06 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-01-31 11:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-31 12:22 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-01-31 12:34 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-31 13:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-31 13:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-31 13:38 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-31 15:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-31 19:13 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-01-31 23:49 ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-02-01 8:51 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
2007-02-01 9:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-01 18:43 ` Ralf Stephan
2007-02-01 20:41 ` Dan Farrell
2007-01-30 14:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-30 16:26 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2007-01-31 11:16 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-31 12:25 ` Dan Farrell
2007-02-01 10:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-31 15:22 ` Anthony E. Caudel [this message]
2007-01-30 19:10 ` Mick
2007-01-30 19:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-30 20:18 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-01-30 22:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-31 0:45 ` Steve Dibb
2007-01-31 1:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-31 10:37 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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