I forget where, but I did see some site at some time that had most of
portage compiled in x86 binaries...

On 12/13/05, Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> wrote:
>
> > > 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
>
> Yeah yeah yeah... Great ol' glory days... Guess what... It's not the 80's
> anymore.
> CPUs are fast, but the programs are still monolithic and take days to
> compile.
>
> I fully agree (and have brought this up before months and years ago) -- I
> believe we should have binaries available for the big packages like KDE,
> OO,
> Gnome, etc. Ya'll that like to waste your time compiling can keep on doing
> that, while the rest of us would like to get some work done.
>
> The thing that's frustrating me right now, is that I just installed KDE
> 3.5
> the other day, then upgraded to the new GCC. After a revdep, it apparently
> has broken all my libc something or other and so I'm once again
> re-compiling
> KDE to fix that! ...joy, only 176 packages to go... :-\
>
> And for you all that want to say -- "switch Distros", your logic is
> flawed.
> Just because I don't want to waste 3 days or more compiling KDE on a
> 2Ghz/640MB notebook, doesn't mean I don't want the other benefits of
> Gentoo,
> like "emerge -u world" and the fact that when I do need to install from
> source (like something that isn't in portage), it usually just compiles
> fine. RedHat 8 NEVER worked that way for me.
>
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