On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Ahem. 'scuse me: > > > > > > I have 5.5G for /var/tmp > > > Wanna guess why? > > > > well, this is Gentoo, so "compile X" where X=<any damn large enough > > package> probably still fits :) Openoffice for example? > > spot on :-) > > It's a throwback to the days when I DID compile OOo. > > Then one day I got a clue and found openoffice-bin. > Building from source is cool. Building OOo yourself is just cruel.
The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to start cross-compiling. -- Regards, Mick
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