On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 10:21:20PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > I think libreoffice, chromium and firefox will be compiled in a chroot from > now > on and then emerged as binaries. This is the difference for libreoffice: > > Sat Aug 29 06:09:09 2015 >>> app-office/libreoffice-4.4.4.3 > merge time: 15 hours, 34 minutes and 2 seconds. > > Sun Sep 13 01:36:03 2015 >>> app-office/libreoffice-4.4.5.2 > merge time: 15 hours, 13 minutes and 17 seconds. > > Sun Nov 29 02:30:04 2015 >>> app-office/libreoffice-5.0.3.2 > merge time: 16 hours, 54 minutes and 28 seconds. > > Sun Mar 27 09:31:20 2016 >>> app-office/libreoffice-5.0.5.2 > merge time: 17 hours and 8 seconds. > > Mon Aug 1 22:17:15 2016 >>> app-office/libreoffice-5.1.4.2 > merge time: 1 minute and 31 seconds. > > (chromium takes even longer!) :-) >
Does it make sense to compile your own versions of these packages and then binary merge, when portage already contains binary ebuilds for these packages? (firefox-bin/libreoffice-bin/google-chrome)
