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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:18:31
Message-Id: 200701311316.01036.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles by "Anthony E. Caudel"
1 On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:26, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
2 > Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >
4 > snip
5 >
6 > >> And OOo only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p
7 > >
8 > > Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages
9 > > available. It takes around 15 hours :(
10 >
11 > So when are the Openoffice people going to break it into separate
12 > packages (Write, Calc, etc.) like KDE did? This would get rid of
13 > that nonsense of 15 hrs for a single package build.
14
15 haha, good joke, nice one, you just made my day.
16
17 Oh wait, you mean you're serious? Erm, well, I once did have a peek into
18 the OOo makefiles and what I saw there was .... scary. If no-one has
19 had the courage so far to separate out the packages, I really wouldn't
20 hold it against them.
21
22 alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles "Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>