On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:48:05 -0200, Charles wrote:

> Jeez.... I just did an emerge -k kde and I tell you, the console still
> shows activity as well as my HDD. It's been I don't know how many hours
> now. I didn't know it would take so long to compile. But is it really
> worth it to compile (I know we don't have the choice but...) I mean MS
> Windows takes less than an hour to install as it's already compiled. I
> used stage 3 to install gentoo. I like the portage concept. This made me
> switch from Windows. Hopefully I'll get rid of Windows and find
> equivalent good tools for my work. I'm still impressed how much time
> it's taking to compile and install. This is ridiculous. But I think it's
> worth the hassle.

If that was the reason maybe it will be better for you to use a rpm-based
distro and apt or yum. By the way I thought emerge -k was installation
from compiled package and i thought you shpuld have them on the CD. if you
did not do it right and emerge doesn't find the prebuild packages then it
compiles it from sources. are you sure you wanted that? It is of course
worth it only i'm not sure if your that patient