On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/8/08, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Am Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008 04:23:35 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: >> > > Why did you choose Gentoo, then? Only by compiling OOo, you will get one >> > > that fits into _your_ system. > > For me, the reasons are > 1. I wanted Gentoo for the toolchain and the things I'm developing. > These are the things where I wanted support tailored to my 2xXeon (4 > core) system. > > 2. I've been using Oo-bin because it worked, and efficiency didn't > matter because > I don't even use it every week. Compiling it takes a day or so and > accordingly it was spending more time compiling than I was spending > using it. Now it no longer works and I'll probably use Word on my > wife's laptop. But I won't like it. Your system is 4 core and it takes a day to compile OOo? Something sounds very off. Honestly, my 3 year old laptop which has 1 core and a 1.8 GHz Turion with 2GB of DDR333 takes 4 hours to compile. What are you running apart from emerge (e.g. X, firefox, etc.)?
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