[gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:

> Those binary packages are supplied by upstream, it's not the same as the
> Gentoo devs providing compiled packages, although they do in the GRP
> collections.
>
> It's no big deal upgrading KDE anyway. Set PORTAGE_NICENESS to a suitable
> value and you can keep using the computer while the new KDE is compiled
> in the background. KDE is slotted, so installing 3.5 has no effect on the
> 3.4.x version you are currently using.

Good tips, thanks... but in this case I'm running a full install from
scratch and would like to be emerging some of the other needed stuff.
That task would be somewhat lessened too just by having X available.

I'm no stranger to console and `screen' but still hard to beat what
you can do with several desktops, pager  and unlimited xterms.

I'm no where near knowledgable enough to know what I can emerge while
kde is grinding away.... probably should have waited on it, but then
it pulls in some of the other stuff too.

Another big nasty package I have to go is emacs-cvs.  Nasty in this
case because of all the X related stuff if depends on, and of course
I'm in console mode for now so there is a bunch of it for
dependancies.

Do you know off-hand if I would be digging myself into a hole by
running and emerge emacs-cvs while this pentium4 is gnawing away at
kde?

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