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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:01:54
Message-Id: 1151862852.5247.33.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it? by Alexander Skwar
1 On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 17:09 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2 > Philipp Riegger wrote:
3 >
4 > > Emerging modular KDE akes as long as emerging the old big kde packages
5 > > (36 hours on your pc),
6 >
7 > Depends. With the split KDE packages, the system needs to md5 & unpack
8 > those rather biggish .tar.bz2 files, like kdebase with ~23MB. If you've
9 > only got a slow harddrive, as it is rather common on notebooks..., that
10 > *WILL* take time.
11 >
12 > So, overall, I'd guess it would be like 36 hours for the big kde packages
13 > vs. maybe something like 37 hours for split ebuilds.
14
15 I found the opposite effect with split ebuilds. Even with the
16 unpack/configure step, updating 100 splite packages out of 330+ was many
17 hours faster than compiling a huge monolithic everything in the past
18
19 alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it? Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>