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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:27:34
Message-Id: CAEH5T2NuaL92LFyNcFD+M=LaLX3cjXrrJ-hQaj_vLqmPACOOrg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced? by Dale
1 On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Grant Edwards wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On 2011-07-28, Mick<michaelkintzios@×××××.com>  wrote:
5 >>
6 >>
7 >>>
8 >>> All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to
9 >>> emerge
10 >>>
11 >>
12 >> Is it any worse that OOo was?
13 >>
14 >> Both took hours, but beyond that, I didn't pay much attention.
15 >>
16 >>
17 >
18 > My build took about 3.3Gbs of drive space.  I ran du just about 5 minutes
19 > before it finished so that is pretty close.  I would say that 4Gbs should be
20 > enough at least on a setup like mine.  You don't want to push your luck to
21 > far.  lol
22 >
23 >>> and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary.
24 >>>
25 >>
26 >> A few days ago, it took me three tries on one of my machines to get
27 >> libreoffice to build.  I think it ran out of disk space the first time,
28 >> though the error messages were rather misleading.
29 >>
30 >> The second time I deleted some stuff from the distfiles dir about half
31 >> way through the build, and it turns out they were still needed later
32 >> in the build).
33 >>
34 >> The third time, it worked. :)
35 >>
36 >>
37 >
38 > On my machine, it took this:
39 >
40 > root@fireball / # genlop -t libreoffice
41 >  * app-office/libreoffice
42 >
43 >     Thu Jul 28 12:33:11 2011 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.3.1
44 >       merge time: 1 hour, 9 minutes and 33 seconds.
45 >
46 > root@fireball / #
47 >
48 > I did stop it with a ctrl Z for about 5 minutes.  I was deleting stuff to
49 > give it some more room.  This is OOo:
50 >
51 >     Tue Jul  5 05:15:01 2011 >>> app-office/openoffice-3.2.1-r1
52 >       merge time: 50 minutes and 27 seconds.
53 >
54 >
55 > That's about a average.  Some were binary installs.  I can't recall why I
56 > did that now but it was since it only took a minute or so.
57 >
58 > That's the report from this rig.  AMD 4 cores running at 3.2Ghz with 16Gbs
59 > of ram.  No tmpfs this time.  That wouldn't be fair since I had to stop it
60 > for a few minutes.
61 >
62 > Dale
63
64 Here is mine:
65
66 Wed May 25 10:07:18 2011 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.3.2
67 merge time: 34 minutes and 10 seconds.
68
69 On my Intel Core i7 920 with 12GB of RAM using tmpfs. :)
70
71 Do those merge times include download time? I wonder...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced? Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced? YoYo Siska <yoyo@××××××.sk>