Open Office takes so much time because it is huge. I wasn't prepared for the wait when I first emerged it either.
I can understand that, but you have to recognize something that's a little different.
When I emerge I measure it in days.
Generally, I emerge right before I go to bed or leave for work. But never haphazardly, which is something that other distributions allow you to do with impunity.
Using something like Debian or Suse, I think nothing of adding in another Window Manager, test driving open office, or just throwing up my arms and reinstalling from scratch. But when it takes 8 hours to install XFree86 and 6 hours to bootstrap, I tend to be more careful about what I install.
I did an 'emerge -e world' and it took something just under 24 hours to finish.
I think Gentoo has a great potential. Sure it takes time, but the arguement is, how often do you really install Open Office? Now that you have it done once, anything further can be done during the night when it won't be noticed.
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