On 2009-02-05, Steven Lembark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> A downside is that you'll need fast machines to comfortably build
>> packages. I wouldn't use it on my Pentium 3 800Mhz for example. That
>> would take ages to compile system/world with recent GCC versions. I
>> guess GCC was much faster in the 2.x versions back then?
>
> How painful is it, really, to run the job when you
> are asleep or away from the machine? Cron the update
> or use "at" to get the changes you want when you are
> away from the console.
If you can spend a week installing Gentoo, it's not a problem.
If you need to have a machine up and running in an hour, it's a
problem. Building OOo on the last install I did took well over
30 hours.
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