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On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > Ahem. 'scuse me: |
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> > > |
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> > > I have 5.5G for /var/tmp |
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> > > Wanna guess why? |
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> > well, this is Gentoo, so "compile X" where X=<any damn large enough |
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> > package> probably still fits :) Openoffice for example? |
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> spot on :-) |
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> It's a throwback to the days when I DID compile OOo. |
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> Then one day I got a clue and found openoffice-bin. |
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> Building from source is cool. Building OOo yourself is just cruel. |
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The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an |
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OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that |
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take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to start cross-compiling. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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