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On 2022-04-21, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 15:49 +0300, Dex Conner wrote: |
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>> So I've found a Thinkpad X200 online and I'm thinking of buying it for |
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>> libreboot purposes. Do you think the P8600 cpu can handle all the |
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>> compiling on gentoo? For the record, I don't have any of the "big stuff" |
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>> like KDE, GNOME, Firefox (all I have is Tor Browser [which I don't |
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>> compile], dwl and some terminal programs like neomutt and profanity). |
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>> Surely, I wouldn't be spending 5 hours to do small upgrades, |
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>> right?..right? |
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> It's getting harder and harder. There's always GCC, which is going to |
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> take you most of the day to build and will probably require -j1 to keep |
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> you from running out of memory. But aside from that, the big ones are |
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> * dev-lang/rust: pulled in by anything that needs SVG support unless |
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> you unmask an old insecure version of librsvg or can tolerate half- |
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> broken SVG support. This takes over 24h, requires -j1, and gets |
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> worse every day because it bundles all of its (growing list of) |
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> dependencies. |
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Have you tried using dev-lang/rust-bin? |
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I switched all my machines to rust-bin a while back, and never noticed any problem. |
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> * LLVM: needed by rust, some video cards, and certain picky packages. |
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> This one is at least _legitimately_ large but has annoying point |
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> releases every once in a while that trigger a rebuild for little |
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> benefit. Again, expect ~24h. |
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Yea, building LLVM is brutal, and pretty much unavoidable these days. |
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Grant |