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On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:44:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> It seemed at one time a year or so ago that gentoo's longevity was |
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> questionable. (Possibly my own mis-perception) |
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The discussions about Gentoo's imminent demise are an annual tradition. |
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> For the OP, a few posters have mentioned that under gentoo, every |
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> thing is compiled from scratch, but it was not made clear that it |
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> happens again and again at most updates. |
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If the OP had read so little about Gentoo that they haven't gleaned that |
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much, it certainly is not the distro for them. |
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> No one has made clear that there is a very HUGE amount of time sunk |
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> into compiling absolutely everything. |
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> A single update, if one lets updating slip a bit, can literally take |
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> days to compile. And more days to reconfigure so that everything works |
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> again. |
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Is the time it takes the computer (not you) to compile updates that much |
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of an issue. Unless you desperately need some feature only in the new |
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release, you can carry on using the computer while it compiles the new |
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versions for you. As for reconfiguring, that has nothing to do with |
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whether the packages were compiled on your computer or a distro's build |
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server, but configs rarely change that significantly. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Love is grand. Divorce is a few grand more. |
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