On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 10/8/08, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > > Am Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008 04:23:35 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: >>> > > Why did you choose Gentoo, then? Only by compiling OOo, you will get >>> one >>> > > that fits into _your_ system. >> >> For me, the reasons are >> 1. I wanted Gentoo for the toolchain and the things I'm developing. >> These are the things where I wanted support tailored to my 2xXeon (4 >> core) system. >> >> 2. I've been using Oo-bin because it worked, and efficiency didn't >> matter because >> I don't even use it every week. Compiling it takes a day or so and >> accordingly it was spending more time compiling than I was spending >> using it. Now it no longer works and I'll probably use Word on my >> wife's laptop. But I won't like it. > Your system is 4 core and it takes a day to compile OOo? Something > sounds very off. > Honestly, my 3 year old laptop which has 1 core and a 1.8 GHz Turion > with 2GB of DDR333 takes 4 hours to compile. > What are you running apart from emerge (e.g. X, firefox, etc.)? > > > -- > Andrey Vul
This is a 6-year-old desktop, 1.6 GHz, 2 GB original DDR memory. I run KDE and sometimes a bunch of compute-bound research tasks of my own creation. I haven't compiled it in so long I may be confusing it with gnome or KDE or any of that collection of things that monopolize my machine from time to time. A couple of years back I went to 'bin' on things I don't use much, and did some trimming on modular packages like KDE to cut down my emerge times. There are just so many times when I want to break in to fool with some hardware and I'm loath to do it during an emerge. I just think of these measures as saving me days of emerging from time to time. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
