On 2022-04-21, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 15:49 +0300, Dex Conner wrote: > >> So I've found a Thinkpad X200 online and I'm thinking of buying it for >> libreboot purposes. Do you think the P8600 cpu can handle all the >> compiling on gentoo? For the record, I don't have any of the "big stuff" >> like KDE, GNOME, Firefox (all I have is Tor Browser [which I don't >> compile], dwl and some terminal programs like neomutt and profanity). >> Surely, I wouldn't be spending 5 hours to do small upgrades, >> right?..right? > > It's getting harder and harder. There's always GCC, which is going to > take you most of the day to build and will probably require -j1 to keep > you from running out of memory. But aside from that, the big ones are > > * dev-lang/rust: pulled in by anything that needs SVG support unless > you unmask an old insecure version of librsvg or can tolerate half- > broken SVG support. This takes over 24h, requires -j1, and gets > worse every day because it bundles all of its (growing list of) > dependencies.
Have you tried using dev-lang/rust-bin? I switched all my machines to rust-bin a while back, and never noticed any problem. > > * LLVM: needed by rust, some video cards, and certain picky packages. > This one is at least _legitimately_ large but has annoying point > releases every once in a while that trigger a rebuild for little > benefit. Again, expect ~24h. Yea, building LLVM is brutal, and pretty much unavoidable these days. -- Grant
