On 2022-04-21, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 15:49 +0300, Dex Conner wrote:
>
>> So I've found a Thinkpad X200 online and I'm thinking of buying it for
>> libreboot purposes. Do you think the P8600 cpu can handle all the
>> compiling on gentoo? For the record, I don't have any of the "big stuff"
>> like KDE, GNOME, Firefox (all I have is Tor Browser [which I don't
>> compile], dwl and some terminal programs like neomutt and profanity).
>> Surely, I wouldn't be spending 5 hours to do small upgrades,
>> right?..right?
>
> It's getting harder and harder. There's always GCC, which is going to
> take you most of the day to build and will probably require -j1 to keep
> you from running out of memory. But aside from that, the big ones are
>
> * dev-lang/rust: pulled in by anything that needs SVG support unless
> you unmask an old insecure version of librsvg or can tolerate half-
> broken SVG support. This takes over 24h, requires -j1, and gets
> worse every day because it bundles all of its (growing list of)
> dependencies.
Have you tried using dev-lang/rust-bin?
I switched all my machines to rust-bin a while back, and never noticed any
problem.
>
> * LLVM: needed by rust, some video cards, and certain picky packages.
> This one is at least _legitimately_ large but has annoying point
> releases every once in a while that trigger a rebuild for little
> benefit. Again, expect ~24h.
Yea, building LLVM is brutal, and pretty much unavoidable these days.
--
Grant
