On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 13:44:50 +1000 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > >Glad you like it! Check out alt.os.linux.gentoo if you haven't > >already. > > > > > >Alan Jackson wrote: > > > > > > > >>Well I got the Gentoo CD and did the install over Labor Day. > >Amazingly>smooth. The bootable CD detected all my hardware, found my > >ISP, just>perfect. Better and easier than my Caldera 3.1.1 install. > >Really.>But oh my God it was slow! I recompiled KDE and that took 20 > >hours>on a 1 Ghz AMD machine. Open office took about 12 hours. > >> > Is the open office compile using an ebuild or is it in tar.gz format I > > have wanted to compile it for a while but keep getting trouble with > it... (that was months ago though) > > ditto re the taking time but 20 hrs for kde seems a long time is that > including a slow download time aswell? > I don't know about the tarballs direct from OO, but the OO source ebuild has been flaky for some time. Sometimes it will compile; sometimes it won't. I've just settled on using the -bin version. KDE compiles are also flaky from time to time. It might be interesting to find a suitable rpm distribution, then use rpm2targz and convert to an ebuild. When I get a round 2it <grin>. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
