Daevid Vincent schreef:
Y'know, it's a bit early in my morning for so much whine, so that's
probably why I'm a bit testy
He should have been here when I installed Gentoo on a
200Mhz machine.
He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of
other packages on my
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:07:45 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote:
CPUs are fast, but the programs are still monolithic and take days to
compile.
Why do you think the larger packages are moving to a modular structure?
This thread is about KDE, and while the monolithic packages are sytill
available, the
And all of these releases have to be carefully coordinated by the
developers, since you can't have a binary download of the new X.org
until the new KDE and GNOME builds are ready, and you have to update
all of the dependency versions for every release, because now release
-r2 of KDE-bin
He should have been here when I installed Gentoo on a
200Mhz machine.
He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of
other packages on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM, what other distro
could turn that machine on a useful server other than Gentoo. Keep the
Yeah yeah
I forget where, but I did see some site at some time that had most of portage compiled in x86 binaries...On 12/13/05, Daevid Vincent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He should have been here when I installed Gentoo on a
200Mhz machine. He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of
On 12/13/05, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I fully agree (and have brought this up before months and years ago) -- I
believe we should have binaries available for the big packages like KDE, OO,
Gnome, etc. Ya'll that like to waste your time compiling can keep on doing
that, while the
On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Harry Putnam wrote:
First off, this is an install from scratch.
While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it
later.
^^ huh?
And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts of kde do what.
I'm not compiling kde-meta either, but I've
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:24:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
It's no big deal upgrading KDE anyway. Set PORTAGE_NICENESS to a
suitable value and you can keep using the computer while the new KDE
is compiled in the background. KDE is slotted, so installing 3.5 has
no effect on the 3.4.x
Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Harry Putnam wrote:
First off, this is an install from scratch.
While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it
later.
^^ huh?
And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts of kde do what.
I'm
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then download a GRP CD, do a stage 3 install then install, X, KDE etc.
from the GRP CD. That's how I did it and had a full working system in
just over and hour. I was able to set my USE flags, sysnc portage and
re-emerge everything that needed it later
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:49:30 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
When did I say meta...
I was differentiating what you did say `kdebase' with the full blown
kde-meta and noting I was somewhere in the middle with an
emerge -v kde.
kde-base/kde is a meta package, it pulls in all the monolithic KDE
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
kde-base/kde is a meta package, it pulls in all the monolithic KDE
builds. If you are concerned about installation compile times, you should
not be trying to build the whole of KDE. Do you really need all of
kdegames, kdeedu and kdetoys to get your
Did you check out the Gentoo docs on kde split ebuilds? It has a lot of good
info. I started to emerge with the kde and then decided to go with the meta
so per the instructions I had to remove some stuff - it shows up as blocked.
On Saturday 10 December 2005 11:31, Harry Putnam wrote:
Neil
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:31:26 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm confused here. (even more..)
Before starting the compile:
I ran a comparision of `emerge -v -p kde' and
emerge -v -p kde-meta
The last showed a much larger pile of dependancies than the former.
A longer list, but not larger.
Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are
already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big
packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a
pre-compiled KDE isn't that
Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
will, have patience my son :P.
I usually prefer `grasshopper' and you will need a heavy fake
oriental accent : )
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On 12/9/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris White wrote:
On Saturday 10 December 2005 06:55, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly:
I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of
kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but
Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
sure, why are you emerge-ing the full kde?
1) `emerge kdebase`
2) ???
3) Profit!
First off, this is an install from scratch.
While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it
later. And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts of kde
Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of
other packages on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM, what other distro
More `TOSS'... hehe
He should of watched me compile emacs on a vic 20 Oh wait .. I'm
`he' and now that I
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Those binary packages are supplied by upstream, it's not the same as the
Gentoo devs providing compiled packages, although they do in the GRP
collections.
It's no big deal upgrading KDE anyway. Set PORTAGE_NICENESS to a suitable
value and you can keep
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