Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Those binary packages are supplied by upstream, it's not the same as the > Gentoo devs providing compiled packages, although they do in the GRP > collections. > > It's no big deal upgrading KDE anyway. Set PORTAGE_NICENESS to a suitable > value and you can keep using the computer while the new KDE is compiled > in the background. KDE is slotted, so installing 3.5 has no effect on the > 3.4.x version you are currently using.
Good tips, thanks... but in this case I'm running a full install from scratch and would like to be emerging some of the other needed stuff. That task would be somewhat lessened too just by having X available. I'm no stranger to console and `screen' but still hard to beat what you can do with several desktops, pager and unlimited xterms. I'm no where near knowledgable enough to know what I can emerge while kde is grinding away.... probably should have waited on it, but then it pulls in some of the other stuff too. Another big nasty package I have to go is emacs-cvs. Nasty in this case because of all the X related stuff if depends on, and of course I'm in console mode for now so there is a bunch of it for dependancies. Do you know off-hand if I would be digging myself into a hole by running and emerge emacs-cvs while this pentium4 is gnawing away at kde? -- [email protected] mailing list
