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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. :)
>
>

kdelibs on any of my machines is at least an hour - probably 2. I'm
running things like a 4 year old 3Ghz single core Athlon 64-bit. I
suspect that the newer processors would change that significantly. ;-)

- Mark