On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > > The latter sounds triesome. I remember how long time it took to compile
> > > OpenOffice and all of KDE, even om my 1200MHz machine.
> >
> > Yeah, those are well-known for taking forever to compile.
> > I think you might be in luck with KDE since that seems to put its files
> > under /usr/local (while GNOME programs tend to put their files under
> > /usr/X11R6). I don't know where OpenOffice installs to.
> >
>
> just a tad off topic...   whenever you're making those gargantuan ports, it
> is a good idea to also make a package (for occasions just like this) and
> keep it around until you update to the next version (and make another
> package).

An excellent idea.

/andreas
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