> Now, take into account, that kdebase has some 40 or so packages within > it. Add that up, you're looking at more than 2 hours spent sitting in > front of a machine watching a ./configure script. It's even worse if > the work directory is cleaned out and fresh source unpacked.
One thing to keep in mind - it will get better for patchlevel releases. If you installed KDE 3.4.0 with the monolithic ebuilds, then to upgrade to 3.4.1 requires another complete install of the same size. Heck, even a security patch to one file in kdebase requires a whole reinstallation of kdebase. With the new setup, we can make it so that only the programs that got changed between 3.4.0->3.4.1 get updated. Dan can help with the exact numbers here, but in our experience you're looking at only having to update around 30% of the original packages, as the rest were unchanged between releases. Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
