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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:28:01 -0400
From: "Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reopen: OpenOffice dies on startup
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/8/08, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de> wrote:
>>  > > Am Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008 04:23:35 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman:
>>  > > Why did you choose Gentoo, then? Only by compiling OOo, you will get one
>>  > > that fits into _your_ system.
>
> For me, the reasons are
> 1. I wanted Gentoo for the toolchain and the things I'm developing.
> These are the things where I wanted support tailored to my 2xXeon (4
> core) system.
>
> 2. I've been using Oo-bin because it worked, and efficiency didn't
> matter because
> I don't even use it every week.  Compiling it takes a day or so and
> accordingly it was spending more time compiling than I was spending
> using it.  Now it no longer works and I'll probably use Word on my
> wife's laptop.  But I won't like it.
Your system is 4 core and it takes a day to compile OOo? Something
sounds very off.
Honestly, my 3 year old laptop which has 1 core and a 1.8 GHz Turion
with 2GB of DDR333 takes 4 hours to compile.
What are you running apart from emerge (e.g. X, firefox, etc.)?


-- 
Andrey Vul

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