Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You actually compile OO? Wow! OO-bin for me. Couple of minutes and
>>> it's installed.
>>
>> Same here. I compiled it for a long time (double meaning!), but when I
>> realized the amount of time spent compiling it was greater than the
>> amount of time spent using it... I decided to go oo-bin as well.
>>
>>
>
> I haven't even tried KDE on Gentoo due to compile times, but less OO.
> No patience for that stuff.
>
> I'm just about ready to build my first new desktop PC in 4 years and
> will have to decide on the very highest AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.4Ghz
> vs one of the new Intel i5 or i7's. No matter what I choose I might
> finally be able to build KDE in maybe a few hours.

I have Core 2 E6600 overclocked 25%, using /dev/shm for portage tmpdir
and kdelibs4 compiles in about 20 minutes, give or take a couple
minutes depending on system load.

My last openoffice emerge was 1 hour 34 minutes. My last
openoffice-bin emerge was 29 seconds. :)