Re: [Nolug] Gentoo?

Ron Johnson wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 09:28, Manuel Lora wrote:
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>>>The Gentoo Way is to totally install from source, and that process
>>>takes A Long Time on a P3 500 when you also have to compile X and
>>>WM or DE.
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>>Heh yes :) On my Athlon 1.1 (with 256 ram), it takes about 16 hours to compile
>>openoffice, and about the same for the entire kde stuff. X about 4-5 hours.
>>Gnome around the same.
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>16+16+4.5+4.5 = 41 hours of not being able to use your computer...
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I agree with you. Although if you have a good backup of the entire
system, readily available,
then it might be worthwhile.

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