Zdenek Travnicek wrote:
>> I don't know a machine with the name thunderbird :-[ . But I started
>> with Gentoo
>> on a Toshiba Tecra 8100, that's a PIII Copermine 800MHz and 512 MB RAM.
>> In this
>> respect, I can say: Yes, I did. :-)   An emerge -e world lasted 11
>> hours, without OOO,
>> OOO alone needs 16 hours to build, _but_ that, for me, was the
>> fascinating thing -
>> The build runs faultless, not even this strange segfaults of
>> typesconfig. :-D
>>
>>  
>
> Cool!
>  
Yeah, and all couple of hours, I very carefully looked at the progress. ;-)
>
> One of my first compilations of OOo was on old Intel Celeron 400 for
> my parents and it took 44hours, and whole system (w/ X, FF, Tb, OOo)
> from stage1 exactly 5days (nearly 5x24 hours ;)
>  
And all the time the fear that the machine breaks or the build. ;-)

> Sweet old times :D
> It's loosing it's magic, when u can make it in 3 hours now ;-)
>  
Yup, but today we have to do other things too. My
Gentoo box is my working machine too, therefore I'm
really happy about the shorter build times.

> On my laptop (Dell Inspiron 6000) with pentium-m@(protected)
> takes me around 13hours though... I guess that encrypted root (with
> /var/tmp) and swap does take it's price ;-)
>
> But even though I need to compile it overnight, it's still worth it.
> It's just the Right Gentoo Way (tm) :-D
>  
That's what I'm talking about. 8-)

>
>  
>> >
>> >> Although I conduct all emerges at the console _not_ in X. Perhaps
>> >> that's it. However, every user should do how he/she likes.
>> >>
>> >
>> > it does not matter where - ooo is huge - bloated. And whereever you emerge it,
>> > it is the package needing the most time.
>>
>> That's absolutely right.
>>
>>  
>
> +1
>
>
> P.S. 389.9cm :-))
>  
114.2cm

Have fun,
W. Canis