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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:42:56
Message-Id: 1311903686.28256.33.camel@troll
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? by Dale
1 On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 11:54 -0500, Dale wrote:
2 > Tanstaafl wrote:
3 > > On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mick<michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > >
5 > >> On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote:
6 > >>
7 > >>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick<michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
8 > >>>
9 > >>>> All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to
10 > >>>> emerge and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary.
11 > >>>>
12 > >
13 > >>> Is it much worse than OpenOffice? Build times are nearly identical on
14 > >>> my system but I haven't paid attention to temp space needed during the
15 > >>> emerge process.
16 > >>>
17 > >
18 > >> By about +3G may be more!
19 > >>
20 > > I think this is not so with the new 3.4.x versions...
21 > >
22 > >
23 > >
24 >
25 > This is so far.
26 >
27 > root@fireball / # du -shc /var/tmp/portage/app-office/
28 > 2.6G /var/tmp/portage/app-office/
29 > 2.6G total
30 > root@fireball /
31 >
32 > It's not done yet either. My /var is at 94% so I am moving some
33 > http-rep* stuff out of the way. One of these days, I'm just going to
34 > mount it on tmpfs and let it rip. lol
35 >
36 > Dale
37 >
38 > :-) :-)
39 >
40
41 For systems without enough space I just map some more with nfs (before
42 you start obviously) - yes it is a lot slower, and you need a reliable
43 network with nfs over tcp for best reliability but it works fine.
44
45 BillK