Re: installing kde-lite from port

2004-04-23 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
I should have added heh heh... for self sarcasm...

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:38:30PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
 On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:31:42PM -0400, Chiang Seng Chang wrote:
  not a question but may be its not such a good idea after all to install kde
  from port on a p2-400, still compiling after 10 hours...
 
 It'll be going for a while yet.  The smart thing to do on slow
 hardware is to install from packages.
 
 Kris
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Re: installing kde-lite from port

2004-04-23 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 17:41]:
 On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:31:42PM -0400, Chiang Seng Chang wrote:
  not a question but may be its not such a good idea after all to install kde
  from port on a p2-400, still compiling after 10 hours...
 
 It'll be going for a while yet.  The smart thing to do on slow
 hardware is to install from packages.
 
 Kris


Nothing wrong with letting the machine 'stretch it's legs' ever now and
then.  'make buildworld' takes 75 hours on my 50Mhz ISA bus box.  It's
not a good idea because your patience runs out, but I don't believe
it's necessarily a bad idea.

-- 
Joshua

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Re: installing kde-lite from port

2004-04-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:31:42PM -0400, Chiang Seng Chang wrote:
 not a question but may be its not such a good idea after all to install kde
 from port on a p2-400, still compiling after 10 hours...

It'll be going for a while yet.  The smart thing to do on slow
hardware is to install from packages.

Kris


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