Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote:
>  
>> I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all.
>>  Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woooooo Ooooooo.
>>  
>
> Huh. Dunno about that. I have a Core2 Duo with 2G RAM here and took
> kdeenablefinal out of USE last night. Started emerge world at midnight,
> wanted to remerge 240+ packages, at 7am this morning it was up to #200
> or thereabouts.
>
> So either these cpus aren't all they are cracked up to be or the
> software is just HUGE. I'm going with the latter :-)
>
> I also see that kde-4.0.2 just hit portage, complete with 345M of
> sources to be downloaded. The other lads in the office here think I am
> completely and utterly mentally defective to want to run Gentoo. I
> think I'm starting to see why they might think that <evil_grin>
>
>  

My old AMD 2500+ with 1Gb of ram does pretty good. I would just like to
be able to type in cat /proc/cpuinfo and see it list those CPUs. LOL

I agree, the software is just huge. It just seems to keep creeping up
on us. Compile times just keep going up too.

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These are the pretended packages: (this may take a while; wait...)

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Estimated update time: 1 day, 20 hours, 53 minutes.
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That used to be about 23 hours or so. More bells and whistles tho. o_O

I'm sticking with KDE 3 right now. With this dial-up and the frequency
of updates, it's just not worth it right now. By the time I get it
updated a new set of updates is coming out.
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