Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?

2014-06-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:52:21PM +0100, Mick wrote On Sunday 15 Jun 2014 20:37:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: Not too sure really how wear and tear translates to real life; overall it's probably just simple bloat you have, to borrow Walter's analogy you started with a sub-compact and now

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?

2014-06-15 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 Jun 2014 23:57:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/06/2014 00:20, Mick wrote: I looked at how long some packages are taking these days. I noticed that firefox and chromium take a lot longer to emerge than was the case 3-4 years ago. For example: [snip ...] Your firefox example

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?

2014-06-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/06/2014 09:27, Mick wrote: And maybe your disks are tired too :-) . You do have hdparm results from 4 years ago to compare? I have not install hdparm on this laptop, thinking that I do not really need it for anything. Anyway, do disks spin slower with age? Even if their bearings

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?

2014-06-15 Thread Mick
On Sunday 15 Jun 2014 20:37:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/06/2014 09:27, Mick wrote: And maybe your disks are tired too :-) . You do have hdparm results from 4 years ago to compare? I have not install hdparm on this laptop, thinking that I do not really need it for anything.

[gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?

2014-06-14 Thread Mick
I looked at how long some packages are taking these days. I noticed that firefox and chromium take a lot longer to emerge than was the case 3-4 years ago. For example: # genlop -t www-client/firefox * www-client/firefox Sat Dec 18 17:19:14 2010 www-client/firefox-3.6.13 merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?

2014-06-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/06/2014 00:20, Mick wrote: I looked at how long some packages are taking these days. I noticed that firefox and chromium take a lot longer to emerge than was the case 3-4 years ago. For example: # genlop -t www-client/firefox * www-client/firefox Sat Dec 18 17:19:14 2010

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my laptop getting old, or are some packages more and more demanding?

2014-06-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 11:20:40PM +0100, Mick wrote I looked at how long some packages are taking these days. I noticed that firefox and chromium take a lot longer to emerge than was the case 3-4 years ago. For example: [...deletia...] I am wondering if something in my configuration is