On Fri, Jun 06, 2003, Adir Abraham wrote about "Re: Gentoo and emerge kde": > > How much time emerge suppose to run when installing kde from fresh ? ( X already > > installed ) > > >From fresh - it took me 1.5 days, and I'm using Celeron [EMAIL PROTECTED], with > 384MB of SDRAM. > > Very logical. Don't forget that the main idea of Gentoo is optimization.
Am I the only one that finds this whole Gentoo approach extraordinarily silly? You spend 24 hours compiling your optimized version of KDE, which needless to say will come out exactly like your neighbor's optimized version of KDE, only to save a total of 10 CPU seconds over the lifetime of that software? As someone who used to compile free software on Sun and DEC Alpha machines for years (including gcc, X-Windows, KDE, etc.) and spent dozens of hours on these things (both my time and CPU time in the background), I was very happy when precompiled free software, like Redhat, came along. It was so convenient and time-saving, that nowadays I only rarely need to compile free software. With cheap hard-disks, it's easier to compile a program with every feature turned on than to spend an hour reading the INSTALL file and compile-in only the features you're interested in (vim and emacs are good examples of this), so distributions like RedHat have no trouble suiting the needs of everyone with their precompiled software. Can anyone educate me why Gentoo users find 24 hours of compilation of KDE worthwhile? Or why they think Gentoo is actually suited for beginners? -- Nadav Har'El | Friday, Jun 6 2003, 6 Sivan 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Birthdays are good for you - the more you http://nadav.harel.org.il |have the longer you live. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
