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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: Alan <alan@×××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)"
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:26:32
Message-Id: 1060806640.19236.5.camel@vertigo
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)" by Alan
1 On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:15, Alan wrote:
2 > huge. The slashdot doubters do have a point though, as the last time I
3 > upgraded KDE in gentoo it was a day or more of compiling, opposed to an
4 > hour or so (if that) of downloading debs/rpms and 5 minutes of
5 > installing them :) That's the compromise though I guess :)
6
7 You could always install only the GRP packages and only upgrade them
8 that way. In fact, even the GRP packages are more optimized than the
9 ones given out by the other distributions.
10
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12 Chris Gianelloni
13 Developer, Gentoo Linux

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