As Brad said: "The first install session is the killer, after you have your "daily use" apps installed, the compile time issue kinda drops away...."
...but a key difference between Gentoo and 'std' distros is that you start a minimal install and add the apps you want - rather than getting pretty much everything. Applications like vi, Gimp, nmap (and apache, X11, KDE, Bluefish etc) won't be there until you put them on. - steve ========================================================= http://www.commarc.co.nz (This e-mail has been scanned by MailMarshal)
