Todd Walton wrote: > On 1/2/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The only benefit I can see portage having is that you get to compile it >> yourself. This is also the first step of why it is inferior. All the >> other reasons why it is inferior stem from that.
> A couple of days ago I installed GnuCash, so I thought that'd be a > nice test. I recompiled it just now. A simple command: 'emerge > gnucash' (though I put 'time' before it). It took 28 minutes and 25 > seconds. Is that really so bad? When's the last time you decided you > needed GnuCash and damn it all you need it NOW! Or any package? > Anything that's going to take much longer than that will have a > precompiled binary available. yikes! There's always been a reason I've avoided gentoo, too long to compile everything. :) Here's apt installing gnucash. Slightly quicker. Oh, if it doesn't have an option turned on that I need, I apt-get source, toggle the option I need, then fakeroot debian/rules :) Instant .deb. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time sudo apt-get install gnucash <- stuff deleted -> Setting up gnucash-common (2.0.1-3ubuntu3) ... Setting up gnucash (2.0.1-3ubuntu3) ... real 1m17.776s user 0m19.589s sys 0m2.204s [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Mark Wolfe Lakeside, Ca. http://www.wolfenet.org gpg fingerprint = 42B6 EFEB 5414 AA18 01B7 64AC EF46 F7E6 82F6 8C71 Microsoft - We put the "backwards" into backwards compatibility. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
