Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-23 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Donnerstag, 21. April 2022, 14:49:24 CEST schrieb Dex Conner: > Hi everyone, > > 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"

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 01:10:46PM + schrieb spareproject776: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 03:49:24PM +0300, Dex Conner wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > 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 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:41:55 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Firefox and Rust have -bin packages - not so lucky with LLVM and > > webkit-gtk. > > Everything has a -bin package if you're willing to trade the security, > configurability, and performance that you get from a source build: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 21 April 2022 17:00:04 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 08:24 -0700, cal wrote: > > Do you have any other (more powerful) machines at home that you could > > set up as a distcc cluster? > > My desktop is only slightly more powerful. I don't really mind the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 08:24 -0700, cal wrote: > > Do you have any other (more powerful) machines at home that you could > set up as a distcc cluster? My desktop is only slightly more powerful. I don't really mind the webkit-gtk build time since it's shared between epiphany and evolution. I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 15:41 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Clever indeed, but here: > > gnome-base/librsvg-2.52.6 pulled in by: > app-text/djvu-3.5.28-r1 requires gnome-base/librsvg > media-gfx/gimp-2.10.30 requires >=gnome-base/librsvg-2.40.6:2 > media-gfx/imagemagick-7.1.0.13

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 21 April 2022 14:10:13 -00 Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 09:41 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > FWIW I dodge the librsvg (and therefore rust) dependency by using a > > binpkg for my desktop icons. > > Clever. Unfortunately for me I still need gimp and evince

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread cal
On 4/21/22 08:02, Dex Conner wrote: > On 22/04/21 09:09AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 15:49 +0300, Dex Conner wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 09:41 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > FWIW I dodge the librsvg (and therefore rust) dependency by using a > binpkg for my desktop icons. Clever. Unfortunately for me I still need gimp and evince and a few others that depend on it, otherwise I'd be tempted to try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 14:31 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Firefox and Rust have -bin packages - not so lucky with LLVM and > webkit-gtk. > Everything has a -bin package if you're willing to trade the security, configurability, and performance that you get from a source build:

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:09:16 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > 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 > > *

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 09:09 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > dev-lang/rust There is rust-bin, though. I use rust-bin on even brand new machines and even though I try to use source builds whenever because I just can't be bothered with the compilation problems and time. > net-libs/webkit-gtk OP

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread spareproject776
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 03:49:24PM +0300, Dex Conner wrote: > Hi everyone, > > 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" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 15:49 +0300, Dex Conner wrote: > Hi everyone, > > 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,