Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How often -uD world?

2009-09-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 14:56 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > The reported 14 hours for OOo isn't as bad as I thought it > might be. I used Gentoo for many years on a machine that took > more than 24hrs to build OOo. You did learn to plan updates of > the big packages. Oh, I remember those days... a

[gentoo-user] Re: How often -uD world?

2009-09-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:37:40 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> One cringes at the thought of updating xulrunner or OOo on a >> netbook. Presumably one would use binary packages for packages >> like those. > > Or just leave the emerge running overnight, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How often -uD world?

2009-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:37:40 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > One cringes at the thought of updating xulrunner or OOo on a > netbook. Presumably one would use binary packages for packages > like those. Or just leave the emerge running overnight, it worked for me. -- Neil Bothwick 640K sho

[gentoo-user] Re: How often -uD world?

2009-09-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-10, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But I doubt the wisdom of updating an SSD netbook on the machine itself: > > 1. Wear on the SSD itself with all those compiles > 2. It's sloow One cringes at the thought of updating xulrunner or OOo on a netbook. Presumably one would use binary packages

[gentoo-user] Re: How often -uD world?

2009-09-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-10, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Is there some sort of rule-of-thumb when it comes to timing or > spacing their updates that members use to keep gentoo happy? I find every week or two to be sufficient. I've found that if you wait too long (e.g. no updates for months at a time), you're much