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I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: |
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I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of |
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kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB |
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ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a |
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lighter, faster compiling, X setup. |
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I've been away from Fedora now for about a year I guess. I left |
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Fedora and redhat after nearly 10yrs because the updates had gotten to |
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where it was every few mnths a full reinstall. I liked gentoo because |
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one can update cleanly without a full reinstall, but now I'm losing |
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what seems even more time with really slow compilations |
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Just on the face of it, it seems somewhat unreasonable with modern |
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software and powerfull computers, to need to spend this amount of time |
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just to get working software running. |
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I seem to recall a kde install being a matter that consumed something |
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like 1/2 hr on Fedora. Must be that those packages are already |
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compiled? |
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Is that an option for us? |
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Is there some burning important reason why we need to throw away hours |
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and hours compiling kde? Wouldn't a binary distribution of kde serve |
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as well in most ways? |
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