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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,

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Charles.

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

Greetings,
CK

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On 2003-12-05, Charles <nothing@nothing.com> 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,
>
> --
> Charles.
>
>

Probably, yes.

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Opinions expressed are my own, not those of Gentoo Linux or any
other entity I am associated with unless stated otherwise.

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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Over 2 Billion Defenestrated

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 04:36:35 +0100, Christian Kruse wrote:

> 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

ROTFL, unless you have a Duron 8000!!!
I've compiled KDE on Duron1300 and Athlon1800 - only the lang-files
[kde-i18n] took longer than that! not to mention qt, kdelibs and kdebase!

"Jon Portnoy" <avenj@gentoo.org> escreveu na mensagem
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: On 2003-12-05, Charles <nothing@nothing.com> wrote:
: Probably, yes.
:
: --
: Jon Portnoy
: avenj/irc.freenode.net #gentoo, irc.oftc.net #cola
: Opinions expressed are my own, not those of Gentoo Linux or any
: other entity I am associated with unless stated otherwise.



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.

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Charles.

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

"PiotrAF" <piotraf@nospam.poczta.onet.pl> escreveu na mensagem
newsan.2003.12.05.12.20.37.703982@nospam.poczta. onet.pl...
: On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:48:05 -0200, Charles wrote:
: 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

Well I'll wait, but that's right, I juat wanted a quick install to get started asap, but it didn't
work out as expected. I wanted it to install from a compiled code from a cd, and it has downloaded
instead source code from the internet and it is compiling itself :-(
Anyway,

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Charles.

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:39:13 -0200, Charles wrote:

> "PiotrAF" <piotraf@nospam.poczta.onet.pl> escreveu na mensagem
> newsan.2003.12.05.12.20.37.703982@nospam.poczta. onet.pl...
> : On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:48:05 -0200, Charles wrote:
> : 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
>
> Well I'll wait, but that's right, I juat wanted a quick install to get started asap, but it didn't
> work out as expected. I wanted it to install from a compiled code from a cd, and it has downloaded
> instead source code from the internet and it is compiling itself :-(
> Anyway,
Try it with "-K", caps to force portage to use the binaries.