yes once you have done it once you have the program installed, if there is an upgrade you may need to compile again, but you can do that with nice so the box is still usable, and you can still use the old version while the new one compiles.
Usually even with a long compile a new version of kde is available on my box before redhat/mandrake/whatever get binary packages made and distributed. people should remeber that they can compile their own binaries under rpm as well, using src.rpm's and the rebuild commands. You can optimise for your own architecture. There was a nice little howto written by a kiwi, but i cannot find it on google at present. Maybe he went to gentoo :-) On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:10:07 +1200 Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 8.5 hours, 20 hours, uh-huh. > There are some patient people out there. > > >I bit the bullet the other night and poped over to Nicks and picked up > >the source dist for Open Office and I was pleasantly suprised that it > >compiled in just 8.5 hrs! (PIV1600/PIII800 distcc) > >I was expecting days for 'the biggest source tarball in open source' but > >it was a fair bit less than the 20 or so hours for KDE... > > > >So... go forth and compile ! > > > > > >: ) > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
