Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 Universal CD install

[Holly Bostick]

vikram ranade schreef:
> oki I am still stuck at installing gnome......taking forever to
> compile.... :-(

Sympathies.... Gnome as a whole isn't so bad; it's just that some of the
packages required in the full GNOME monty are among the longest to
compile-- most notably mozilla. Even stripped via USE flags
(-mozcalendar -mozdevelop +moznocompose +moznoirc +moznomail -moznoxft
+mozsvg), it still takes till doomsday to compile, and a number of
programs in the full 'gnome' metapackage depend on it.

Which is the main reason.... I hate to bring it up, since you're already
in the middle of the compile, but you probably should know.... which is
one of the reasons that I never 'emerge gnome' but always 'emerge
gnome-light' instead. But maybe you need Mozilla and Epiphany and
Evolution and Evolution Data Server and Sound (bloody) Juicer, in which
case, you must suffer the bloated time-consuming compile.

On the occasions that I need such an awful compile during the
installation process (for instance, I usually want to at least install
kdelibs, which also takes forever, because I use a lot of KDE apps,
though rarely KDE itself), I usually install a very light WM, like
IceWM, as the last stage of install, just to have something I can use to
boot into, and have something like a completed system (meaning "with X")
installed, from which I then compile GNOME or KDE or whatever. Even
WindowMaker or AfterStep will do for this purpose, if you like those WMs
(and there's plenty to like about them, despite their advanced age and
lack of 'modernness'). Heaven knows, they take some 10 or 15 minutes to
compile, if that long, and of course system-dependent; I have an Athlon
XP 2200+ and 512MB ram, so not really a super-charged setup, though
naturally much faster than some of the PIIs and PIIIs I know exist
around here-- and the compilation time does not include X of course, but
there's no getting around that whatever WM or DE you install. The quick
compile of the older WMs is not to be sneezed at by any means, and
WindowMaker and AfterStep are pretty usable out of the box, even for
those who didn't 'grow up with' them, as many old-school users
did. IceWM is for those who 'grew up with' Windows, and is probably a
better choice for users who 'grew up with' Win95 and 98.

Just ideas for the future, in case you ever need/want/are asked to
install Gentoo to another machine.

HTH,
Holly
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