Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

[Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:55 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly:
>
> I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of
> kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB
> ram. Is there an alternative to this?  I mean aside from using a
> lighter, faster compiling, X setup.

> Is there some burning important reason why we need to throw away hours
> and hours compiling kde?  Wouldn't a binary distribution of kde serve
> as well in most ways?



Okay, selfplugging a bit here, but thats ok, I've got a permit.  Or
wait, no I don't, so it seems that this is still unofficial and
unsupported by others than me and then only at "best effort":

http://chinstrap.alternating.net/





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