[Sussex] Ha Ha! Almost complete Gentoo success!

[John D.]

Stephen Williams wrote:

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>Yup, I reckon KDE-meta-3.4.1 alone will take nigh on 40 hours. Stage 1
>on a Stage 3 tarball, gcc-3.4 install next time John.
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I was just reading the gentoo kde split e-build doc. Which explained the 
pros and cons, it made me wonder about whether a new emerge or a 
re-build post adding the USE flags would take the longer.

Though 40 hours ? Last time I screwed up installing gentoo and did the 
emerge kde, as opposed to emerge -k kde, it only took about 15 hours so 
with "their" projection of +20 to 25% I figured maybe 18 to 20 hours, 
but again it depends on the new Vs. rebuild.

Personally I feel that it's going quite well, as I'm now down to a mere 
420 packages to go - and thats accounting for the delay of forgetting 
that java sdk and it's "fetch restriction" (the systems now onto Xorg, 
which is a biggie any way you look at it).

As for Niks comment about whether it'll have finished by the next moot, 
I was thinking about whether it would be ready for the next one that I 
can get too, bearing in mind my average of about 3 per annum! :-P

regards

John D.