Daevid Vincent schreef: Y'know, it's a bit early in my morning for so much whine, so that's probably why I'm a bit testy....
>>> He should have been here when I installed Gentoo on a >> >> 200Mhz machine. >> >> He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of >> other packages on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM > > Yeah yeah yeah... Great ol' glory days... Guess what... It's not the > 80's anymore. CPUs are fast, but the programs are still monolithic > and take days to compile. No, in fact they are *not* monolithic any more, that is the entire point of the split ebuilds and modular X. > Ya'll that like to waste your time compiling can keep on doing that, > while the rest of us would like to get some work done. Those of us that like to "waste our time compiling" actually do it in such a way that we *can* "get some work done" while the compile is progressing... maybe I'm missing your point, or maybe your work requires the "big builds" in some way (meaning X mostly, since KDE is by no means a requirement to get something done). > > The thing that's frustrating me right now, is that I just installed > KDE 3.5 the other day, then upgraded to the new GCC. After a revdep, > it apparently has broken all my libc something or other and so I'm > once again re-compiling KDE to fix that! ...joy, only 176 packages to > go... :-\ Are you logged in all this time? If so, what's the problem? > > And for you all that want to say -- "switch Distros", your logic is > flawed. Just because I don't want to waste 3 days or more compiling > KDE on a 2Ghz/640MB notebook, doesn't mean I don't want the other > benefits of Gentoo, Fine, you want the "benefits" without the price-- now for myself, I consider the ability to customize my KDE install (in my case to the absolute minimum necessary) to be a benefit, but apparently you don't. So check out http://desktop.vidalinux.com/ , supposedly they have a club (that you must pay to be a member of) that provides binary packages. Maybe you'll find that price more acceptable for your needs. Unfortunately the site is down due to mobo failure atm, but hth anyway. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
