Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:40:56
Message-Id: 20070130193103.32d21152@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles by Mick
1 On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:10:45 +0000, Mick wrote:
2
3 > > Not on my 1GHz G4 iBook, for which there are no binary packages
4 > > available. It takes around 15 hours :(
5 >
6 > Ha, ha! :)
7 >
8 > Sat Mar 18 21:22:50 2006 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.0.1-r1
9 > merge time: 23 hours, 30 minutes and 58 seconds.
10 >
11 > As if that's not bad enough I remember a couple of years ago I tried it
12 > 3 times in a row, with different fixes each time (some bug wouldn't let
13 > it complete the emerge). I must have been at it for the best part of a
14 > week.
15
16 I know how you felt. there was a problem that caused the OOo install
17 script to fail, after 15 hours of compilation. That took quite a few
18 runs to get sorted. The day after I got it to install, a new version came
19 out with the same problem :(
20
21
22 --
23 Neil Bothwick
24
25 Windows 98, the most installed system in the world, I know, I've done it
26 5 or 6 times myself.

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