On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:26:37PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > On Sunday, 7. June 2009 13:16:04 Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > I remember Duck (I'm awfully sorry for not remembering his real name > > :-( ) mentioning something about compiling kde4libs :-) > > That would be great! > > But I would also go for first doing it in dwm. I'll just have to select > another email client then - and set it up with GnuPG. > > And I know the problem about real names - as soon as my brain starts > referring > to people by their nick names, I need an address book to find the real names > :)
Oh yeah... It happens often for me, too :-) > > This is true, but I wonder how much the somewhat reduced speed of the > > Hurd may influence the build times of portage packages... Given that > > the Hurd is often used in virtualized environments, this should be a > > matter of concern, since .debs will install faster. > > As long as you use the same host architecture and USE-flags, you can just > create binpackages on one machine and then let others use that machine as > binhost (just install the binary packages), so it shouldn't matter too much > (I > hope :) ). Aha, so we come back to binary packages :-) I'd like to state, though, that I fully agree with antrik on the matter that having Gentoo GNU/Hurd developed would be great because it could explore another use-case of the Hurd and bring some more people into the community. (And, anyway, I built my emacs from source, since apt didn't want to help me :-) ) > My first install took me three days, though, so you should plan some free > time. And I wouldn't play too much - it's very easy to get carried away with > all the options it offers ;-) > > About a month ago I needed 2 days - one for the backup (the worst part - I > double- and triplechecked it to avoid dataloss), 4 hours for deciding and > doing exactly what I want, the rest of the day for letting my computer > compile > the system while I do something else :-) Thanks for information! :-) Regards, scolobb
