On Monday 16 June 2003 06:58 am, Tom Allison wrote: > William F Pearson III wrote: > > 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. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
You could emerge openoffice-bin. It's a precompiled binary. The full build resulted in a broken install that I couldn't fix. I had to emerge -C openoffice and then manually remove all Oo files and folders. Then the openoffice-bin took 5 minutes as compared to 5 hours. Sure, it's not optomised for my hardware but for all the time I spend running Oo, it will take me years to loose back that 4 hours and 55 minutes. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
