On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. :) > >
kdelibs on any of my machines is at least an hour - probably 2. I'm running things like a 4 year old 3Ghz single core Athlon 64-bit. I suspect that the newer processors would change that significantly. ;-) - Mark
