Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote:
>
>> I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all.
>>   Compile times would be pretty short.  ;-)  Woooooo Ooooooo.
>>
>
> Huh. Dunno about that. I have a Core2 Duo with 2G RAM here and took
> kdeenablefinal out of USE last night. Started emerge world at midnight,
> wanted to remerge 240+ packages, at 7am this morning it was up to #200
> or thereabouts.
>
> So either these cpus aren't all they are cracked up to be or the
> software is just HUGE. I'm going with the latter :-)
>
> I also see that kde-4.0.2 just hit portage, complete with 345M of
> sources to be downloaded. The other lads in the office here think I am
> completely and utterly mentally defective to want to run Gentoo. I
> think I'm starting to see why they might think that <evil_grin>
>
>

My old AMD 2500+ with 1Gb of ram does pretty good.  I would just like to 
be able to type in cat /proc/cpuinfo and see it list those CPUs.  LOL 

I agree, the software is just huge.  It just seems to keep creeping up 
on us.  Compile times just keep going up too. 

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root@smoker / # emerge -ep world | genlop -p
These are the pretended packages: (this may take a while; wait...)

<<  SNIP one loooooooong list  >>


Estimated update time: 1 day, 20 hours, 53 minutes.
root@smoker / # 

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That used to be about 23 hours or so.  More bells and whistles tho.  o_O

I'm sticking with KDE 3 right now.  With this dial-up and the frequency 
of updates, it's just not worth it right now.  By the time I get it 
updated a new set of updates is coming out.
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