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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> One point no one has mentioned and I've wondered from time to time |
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> myself is whether one can expect gentoo to continue into the future |
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> for a long while, as compared to the likely hood of opensuse or maybe |
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> debian that has been around a very long time. |
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> It seemed at one time a year or so ago that gentoo's longevity was |
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> questionable. (Possibly my own mis-perception) |
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> For the OP, a few posters have mentioned that under gentoo, every |
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> thing is compiled from scratch, but it was not made clear that it |
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> happens again and again at most updates. |
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> No one has made clear that there is a very HUGE amount of time sunk |
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> into compiling absolutely everything. |
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> A single update, if one lets updating slip a bit, can literally take |
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> days to compile. And more days to reconfigure so that everything works |
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> again. |
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People have been claiming Gentoo is dying for years. I seriously doubt |
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that is going to happen anytime soon. |
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I did sort of mention the compile times. Thing is, we don't know what |
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sort of rig the OP has. If he has a really old rig, that could result |
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is some long compile times. If it is a recently bought/built rig, then |
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it may be fast enough to not matter. |
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It seems no matter how much info a post has, there is always something |
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missing. :/ I'm just glad I buy my tea loose. I can read the tea |
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leaves easier. O_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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