I hereby accuse Christian Kruse of stating:

> Hoi,
>
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 01:21:09 -0200 you wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm installing Gentoo. I am now installing KDE and it's taken
>> almost a day now. My computer is a Pentium III 650 Mhz. It is still
>> installing KDE. Is it normal?
>> Thanks,
>
> No, it isn't. It took about 4 hours on my AMD Duron 800. Yes, KDE is
> C++, yes, KDE is a large project. But it won't compile more than a day.
> Oh, wait a moment, you said, you installed gentoo? So, the QT lib isn't
> installed, too? What about X? Oh, this could take some time, yes

QT is the one that really takes an insane amount of time. KDE and X are
comparatively short (a few hours).

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