On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Paul Hartman > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> You actually compile OO? Wow! OO-bin for me. Couple of minutes and >>> it's installed. >> >> Same here. I compiled it for a long time (double meaning!), but when I >> realized the amount of time spent compiling it was greater than the >> amount of time spent using it... I decided to go oo-bin as well. >> >> > > I haven't even tried KDE on Gentoo due to compile times, but less OO. > No patience for that stuff. > > I'm just about ready to build my first new desktop PC in 4 years and > will have to decide on the very highest AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.4Ghz > vs one of the new Intel i5 or i7's. No matter what I choose I might > finally be able to build KDE in maybe a few hours.
I have Core 2 E6600 overclocked 25%, using /dev/shm for portage tmpdir and kdelibs4 compiles in about 20 minutes, give or take a couple minutes depending on system load. My last openoffice emerge was 1 hour 34 minutes. My last openoffice-bin emerge was 29 seconds. :)
