Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change [offtopic]
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:15:40
Message-Id: 1201158376.16731.9.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change [offtopic] by Caleb Cushing
1 On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 20:34 -0500, Caleb Cushing wrote:
2 > On Jan 20, 2008 8:43 AM, Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3 > Stefan de Konink wrote:
4 > > ..very offtopic but how are you all compiling stuff like
5 > firefox on a
6 > > ram disk. Or is 8GB of ram very cheap suddenly?
7 >
8 > not to mention, last time I checked open office only required ~2GB of
9 > space to compile and it takes more than firefox. Most apps can be done
10 > in less than 512MB
11
12 The largest abuser of space in the tree that I am aware of is
13 games-fps/ut2004-data which weighs in at nearly 7GB to install. I'm
14 pretty sure that games-strategy/nwn-data is pretty close with USE="hou
15 sou" enabled. ;]
16
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18 Chris Gianelloni
19 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
20 Games Developer

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