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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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The date is when I removed it, having removed Gimp too ; |
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the time is compile+install time when I previously installed it ; |
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the current stable version is 2.2.6 , which mb much more demanding. |
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Generally, old hardware (how old is yours ? ) doesn't play well |
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with the latest versions of popular free software : |
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that's why there are distros designed for old hardware. |
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> Why does webkit-gtk drag in ruby and several ruby gems? |
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> I need them only because of webkit-gtk : I have no other need for ruby. |
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I've never had Ruby installed in this machine, so try juggling flags. |
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HTH |
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