Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.0 - compiling or binary

[Ernie Schroder]

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 08:49 am, a tiny voice compelled Dale to write:
> Ernie Schroder wrote:
> >On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:00 am, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Klosa
> > to
> >
> >write:
> >>I have used both versions. The compiled version seems to be more stable
> >> on my system.
> >
> >I've installed OO both ways in the past and stability hasn't been an
> > issue. The only thing I noticed is that the compiled version opens faster
> > than the binary version. As I remember, the difference was roughly 7
> > seconds. It seems like an eternity these days but if I weigh that 7
> > seconds against the time it took to compile, I would have to open the
> > application around 4,100 times to make the 8 hours it took to compile
> > worth my while.
> >
> >>Uwe
> >>
> >>Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
> >>>Joseph wrote:
> >>>>Is there a benefit of compiling Openoffice 2.0 vs. installing from
> >>>>binary.
> >>>>
> >>>>I've AMD 1.8Mhz with 1Gb or Ram and it has been compiling OO 2.0 for
> >>>>7-hours already.
> >>>
> >>>It's likely to take somewhere around 8-11 hours on such a machine. It
> >>>took somewhere around 10 hours for me on a 1500 MHz Athlon XP with 1 GB
> >>>RAM.
> >>>
> >>>Whether or not you can benefit from compiling is unknown to me. But it's
> >>>more fun ;)
> >>>
> >>>-
> >>>Kristian Poul Herkild
>
> Well, this is what I have to worry about:
> > >>> Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/OOO_2_0_0-core.tar.bz2
> >
> > --07:39:04--  http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/OOO_2_0_0-core.tar.bz2
> >            => `/usr/portage/distfiles/OOO_2_0_0-core.tar.bz2'
> > Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52
> > Connecting to gentoo.osuosl.org|64.50.238.52|:80... connected.
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> > Length: 157,108,531 (150M) [application/x-tar]
> >
> >  0%
> > [
> > ] 1,019,392      2.78K/s ETA 15:29:44
>
> 15 hours to download just that part.  There is likely to be even more
> than that.
>
> I still like to compile my own.  It is why I chose Gentoo, everything is
> from source.  If I wanted binaries, I could have stuck with Mandrake.
> Plus as someone said above, it is more fun.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)
>
> --
> To err is human, I'm most certainly human.

 Granted it's more fun (I think) but I have other interests that I would 
rather engage in. I just installed openoffice-bin in 7 minutes and 7 seconds 
including D'load time.
I've recently done 11 months worth of updates on this box and have about 40 
hours of build time on it in the last 10 days. I want to use it, not watch 
more text fly by on the console.
OO is not an application I use daily. I have it  installed because I need it 
maybe twice a week. It's just not worth 12 hours of 95% cpu load to me to 
compile it.
By all means, if you spend several hours a day using OO, compile it from 
source. You will see a performance gain.

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Regards, Ernie
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