On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 17:09 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Philipp Riegger wrote: > > > Emerging modular KDE akes as long as emerging the old big kde packages > > (36 hours on your pc), > > Depends. With the split KDE packages, the system needs to md5 & unpack > those rather biggish .tar.bz2 files, like kdebase with ~23MB. If you've > only got a slow harddrive, as it is rather common on notebooks..., that > *WILL* take time. > > So, overall, I'd guess it would be like 36 hours for the big kde packages > vs. maybe something like 37 hours for split ebuilds.
I found the opposite effect with split ebuilds. Even with the unpack/configure step, updating 100 splite packages out of 330+ was many hours faster than compiling a huge monolithic everything in the past alan -- [email protected] mailing list
