I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a lighter, faster compiling, X setup.
I've been away from Fedora now for about a year I guess. I left Fedora and redhat after nearly 10yrs because the updates had gotten to where it was every few mnths a full reinstall. I liked gentoo because one can update cleanly without a full reinstall, but now I'm losing what seems even more time with really slow compilations Just on the face of it, it seems somewhat unreasonable with modern software and powerfull computers, to need to spend this amount of time just to get working software running. I seem to recall a kde install being a matter that consumed something like 1/2 hr on Fedora. Must be that those packages are already compiled? Is that an option for us? Is there some burning important reason why we need to throw away hours and hours compiling kde? Wouldn't a binary distribution of kde serve as well in most ways? -- [email protected] mailing list
