On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:58, Holly Bostick wrote: > Gerhard Hoogterp schreef:
> > While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, > > there are already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, > > openoffice-bin. Mostly big packages which take some time to compile. > > So the idea of having a pre-compiled KDE isn't that alien to the > > world of gentoo.. > > Oh, phooey, Gerhard (sorry). NP.. happily phooey away..;-) It wasn't my question and I already did my compile session.. Only 3 days due to some hurdles, toxml who dosn't know about its dependency on libxlst and hal wanting a newer kernel (but not MM- as it doesn't seem to have the needed feature.. so back to gentoo kernel.. ) But oh well, that's the goodness that's gentoo and sorting it out yourself gives on that soft glowing "almost-guru" feeling..;-) > People, it's not like KDE just got huge yesterday or something. Nope, but on a slow machine it IS big.. and trying to keep an 400mhz amd-k6 somewhat up to date as a gateway (without KDE, but compiling glibc or apache/php/mysql isn't much fun either) I can see that's a problem for some. Of course the question is if they should run kde on such a machine, but that's up to them.. I don't blame them for asking. But seeing my hurdles while upgrading, I doubt that just binary kde packages is going to help them much. Gerhard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
