On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:14, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > History: Chris Sawtell offered to talk on gentoo at the next meeting,
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > demo the installation of a (small) app (small as it has to download @56k
> > > and compile while everyone is watching)
> >
> > This is the one I like :-) May I suggest OpenOffice ? :-D
> Sure, I'll make sure I have the downloaded archive available on a cd or 
> something so we can pretend the d/l is happening, while in fact the file is 
> coming out of the local archive of downloaded files. 

I was just joking :-D while trying to make a point.

Downloading may not be the problem, OTOH ... compiling
... 600MB and counting.

That's about 6x the full kernel tree and is c++ not c.
I wander how long does it take ?

Cheers,
-- 
Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Systems Manager
University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

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