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On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> 140616 walt wrote: |
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>> I'm sick of building webkit-gtk. |
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>> My oldest machine (a dual-core AMD64) |
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>> has been building webkit for 6 hours and still going. |
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> An entry in my home-made list of un/installed pkgs : |
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> 140322 net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.3-r201 [ 22 min : for gimp] |
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Webkit-gtk definitely has been taking longer to build: |
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Sun Oct 23 16:27:39 2011 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.4.3-r300 |
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merge time: 12 minutes and 18 seconds. |
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Sat May 19 22:31:00 2012 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.6.3-r300 |
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merge time: 15 minutes and 37 seconds. |
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Thu Oct 18 14:52:57 2012 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.3-r300 |
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merge time: 29 minutes and 1 second. |
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Sun Dec 1 15:33:43 2013 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.0.4 |
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merge time: 50 minutes and 21 seconds. |
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Mon Mar 10 09:09:33 2014 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.2.5 |
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merge time: 46 minutes and 8 seconds. |
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Wed May 28 14:07:43 2014 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.2.6 |
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merge time: 1 hour, 39 minutes and 57 seconds. |
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Granted, I don't know what else was going on with the machine when I |
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was building it, but you can see the trend. |
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I do think a reference binary package repository for Gentoo would be a |
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good thing, but obviously it will be limited to some standard set of |
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USE flags. Nothing says that we can only distribute binary packages |
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if upstream does, though in some cases bindist will apply. |
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Rich |
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