I finally have Gentoo 2004.3 up and running on my Via Epia-ME6000
mini-itx box.

I ran the command "emerge x11". This ends up taking some 8 to 12 hours
to complete. At least everything is optimally compiled for the Via Eden
cpu.

I then ran the command "emerge kde". Two days later, it is still
executing.

Just what have I brought upon myself?

amuskratt@yahoo.com wrote:

> I finally have Gentoo 2004.3 up and running on my Via Epia-ME6000
> mini-itx box.
>
> I ran the command "emerge x11". This ends up taking some 8 to 12 hours
> to complete. At least everything is optimally compiled for the Via Eden
> cpu.
>
> I then ran the command "emerge kde". Two days later, it is still
> executing.
>
> Just what have I brought upon myse
emerge kde will install ALL of kde. It's faster to install as modules
(kdebase, kdeadmin, etc.) it will be worth the wait!

Bigbob

In alt.os.linux.gentoo, amuskratt@yahoo.com uttered the immortal words:

> I finally have Gentoo 2004.3 up and running on my Via Epia-ME6000
> mini-itx box.
>
> I ran the command "emerge x11". This ends up taking some 8 to 12 hours
> to complete. At least everything is optimally compiled for the Via Eden
> cpu.
>
> I then ran the command "emerge kde". Two days later, it is still
> executing.

KDE is huge and does take a long time to build. KDE 3.3.2 took around 8 - 9
hours on my AthlonXP 2600+. I started the upgrade on my P3 550MHz box
earlier. That'll still be running well into tomorrow. :-)

--
Andy.

amuskratt@yahoo.com enlightened us with:
> I ran the command "emerge x11". This ends up taking some 8 to 12
> hours to complete.

Auch... and then to think you probably want "xorg-x11" instead of
"x11".

> I then ran the command "emerge kde". Two days later, it is still
> executing.
>
> Just what have I brought upon myself?

KDE is huge. If you can't wait for it to compile, either get a smaller
desktop like xfce, or get a binary distribution.

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

bigbob enlightened us with:
> emerge kde will install ALL of kde. It's faster to install as
> modules (kdebase, kdeadmin, etc.) it will be worth the wait!

I think you forgot to add "and leave out the modules you don't need".
Manually installing all the KDE modules is at best just as slow as
emerging "kde".

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

The 600 MHz Via Eden cpu is probably equivalent to 400 MHz Penium 3.

Would an estimate of 48 hours total time be about right? Damn.

I have an Athlon XP 2100+ but it's configured for Windows only. If I
were also to install Gentoo on that, what would I need to set up and
configure in order to cross-compile for the Eden chip?

Andy Fraser wrote:
> In alt.os.linux.gentoo, amuskratt@yahoo.com uttered the immortal
words:
>
> > I finally have Gentoo 2004.3 up and running on my Via Epia-ME6000
> > mini-itx box.
> >
> > I ran the command "emerge x11". This ends up taking some 8 to 12
> > hours to complete. At least everything is optimally compiled for
> > the Via Eden cpu.
> >
> > I then ran the command "emerge kde". Two days later, it is still
> > executing.
>
> KDE is huge and does take a long time to build. KDE 3.3.2 took around
> 8 - 9 hours on my AthlonXP 2600+. I started the upgrade on my P3
> 550MHz box earlier. That'll still be running well into tomorrow. :-)
>
> --
> Andy.

In alt.os.linux.gentoo, Sybren Stuvel uttered these immortal words:

>> I ran the command "emerge x11". This ends up taking some 8 to 12
>> hours to complete.
>
> Auch... and then to think you probably want "xorg-x11" instead of
> "x11".

beetle root # emerge -p x11

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3

I didn't know that until just now. :-)

--
Andy.

Sybren Stuvel wrote:

> bigbob enlightened us with:
>> emerge kde will install ALL of kde. It's faster to install as
>> modules (kdebase, kdeadmin, etc.) it will be worth the wait!
>
> I think you forgot to add "and leave out the modules you don't need".
> Manually installing all the KDE modules is at best just as slow as
> emerging "kde".
>
> Sybren

true :]

In alt.os.linux.gentoo, amuskratt@yahoo.com uttered these immortal words:

> The 600 MHz Via Eden cpu is probably equivalent to 400 MHz Penium 3.
>
> Would an estimate of 48 hours total time be about right? Damn.

I estimate 36 hours on the 550MHz P3 so 48 hours sounds about right, give or
take an hour or so.

> I have an Athlon XP 2100+ but it's configured for Windows only. If I
> were also to install Gentoo on that, what would I need to set up and
> configure in order to cross-compile for the Eden chip?

Have a look at distcc. You can then get the Athlon to do most of the
compiling. I haven't had too much luck setting up distcc for my systems but
I haven't tried all that hard. Others will be able to advise you on that.

I did test distcc on a couple of Debian systems (a P3 700MHz and a P3
550MHz) and got mplayer to compile in 10 - 15 mins. It took around 25 mins
on the P3 550MHz on it's own.

PS Please don't top post.

PPS Six hours in and my P3 has just started kdebase (it's compiled cups,
arts and kdelibs so far). :-)

--
Andy.

Andy Fraser enlightened us with:
> beetle root # emerge -p x11
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3
>
> I didn't know that until just now. :-)

Neither did I! Nice one ;-)

Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?