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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:29:10 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> Sure, of course I'm not staring at the gcc lines scrolling by, but it |
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> gets in the way of compiling other things and causes unnecessary (in |
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> my case) CPU and power load for a program I use only rarely. |
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> Especially on slower machines, like my laptop which takes something |
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> like 4 hours to compile openoffice. In that case I think gentoo in |
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> general may not be the right choice (since, again, I spend more time |
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> emerging than I do actually using the laptop), but I don't like any |
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> other distro so whatever. :) |
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With my 900MHz Eee, I've copied its filesystems to a directory on |
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my desktop that I use as a chroot, with FEATURES="buildpkg", then use |
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emerge -k on the Eee (both have the same PKGDIR over NFS). So it still |
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takes 90 mins to install openoffice,and the startup speed advantage of |
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the source package is particularly useful on a slow box. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Criminal Lawyer" is a redundancy. |