On Friday 09 December 2005 16:55, Harry Putnam wrote:
Check out Kubuntu dude. It's probably right up your alley. This is *not* an
anti-Gentoo email. I 100% love Gentoo, and will continue to use it!
(Puts asbestos suit back in the drawer...)
> 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?
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