Re:Gentoo Linux Releases LiveDVD Iron Penguin Edition
by valarauca1 on Friday September 05, 2014 @09:20AM
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KDE takes about 30 hours to compile on my core i7-4790k even threading it out to all 8 threads.
Re:Gentoo Linux Releases LiveDVD Iron Penguin Edition
by andmarios on Friday September 05, 2014 @10:01AM
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That is too long. On my i7-3630QM laptop it takes about six hours or less. I haven't seen KDE (with almost all use flags enabled) take 30 hours since 2006 on my Pentium 4 and I have emerged every major and minor update since then. Even on Pentium 4 I think the usual emerge duration was around 18 hours most of the time.
Re:Gentoo Linux Releases LiveDVD Iron Penguin Edition
by valarauca1 on Friday September 05, 2014 @10:08AM
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I think I maybe counting KDE's dependencies into that figure. Not just KDE alone.
Re:Gentoo Linux Releases LiveDVD Iron Penguin Edition
by jinzo on Friday September 05, 2014 @09:29AM
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Interesting. I'm running a mix of i3wm and some Gnome apps on a relatively old Intel P8700 powered laptop and the only compile pain points are browsers and libreoffice (I ended up using the -bin package).
Re:Gentoo Linux Releases LiveDVD Iron Penguin Edition
by vezzy-fnord on Friday September 05, 2014 @09:19AM
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Portage supports installing binary packages from a binhost, as well. Most large packages (Firefox, Chromium, LibreOffice, etc.) have precompiled versions that follow the naming convention of $SOURCEPKGNAME-bin.
I feel the same about Gentoo, but my approach to desktops and servers is the opposite. If my laptop or desktop breaks during a Gentoo upgrade, it's an interesting learning experience (after much gnashing of teeth and shaking of fist). If a server breaks during an upgrade that's a business impacting outage. So I prefer to run Red Hat or CentOS on servers despite distinct lack of awesome latest packages.
I never bothered with a Gnome or KDE desktop. Compiling XFCE, Firefox and Chromium takes long enough.