On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:29:10 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > Sure, of course I'm not staring at the gcc lines scrolling by, but it > gets in the way of compiling other things and causes unnecessary (in > my case) CPU and power load for a program I use only rarely. > Especially on slower machines, like my laptop which takes something > like 4 hours to compile openoffice. In that case I think gentoo in > general may not be the right choice (since, again, I spend more time > emerging than I do actually using the laptop), but I don't like any > other distro so whatever. :)
With my 900MHz Eee, I've copied its filesystems to a directory on my desktop that I use as a chroot, with FEATURES="buildpkg", then use emerge -k on the Eee (both have the same PKGDIR over NFS). So it still takes 90 mins to install openoffice,and the startup speed advantage of the source package is particularly useful on a slow box. -- Neil Bothwick "Criminal Lawyer" is a redundancy.
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