On Monday 20 October 2003 04:34, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > This means that if a user emerges xfree when linked to a 2.4 kernel, > that user will need to remerge xfree after moving to 2.6 kernels. This > takes about 40 minutes on a ~2GHz x86.
Well 40 minutes on 2GHz ist a lot more time on a 1GHz system. I recently built gentoo on my laptop (1.1GHz) and it took more than 12 hours for (not all of) kde. With X and gcc and whatnot it would have been quite more. Of course every package only adds an hour or two but it still sums up. I merged gtk+ with -O just to avoid upgrading to xfree-4.3.0-r3 and even that took quite some time. > 1) Is this acceptable? > 2) If not, what is a better solution? Dropping the patch entirely? Note > that I don't know Mesa/programming well enough to write a patch > compatible for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. At least don't put the reason for this into a postinst notice. I'd hate to merge a new xfree, just to see a notice (after hours of compiling) about breakage. If you break something, tell me _before_ I merge the package. Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
