On 2009-06-16, AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Silly. Anybody with an 8th education can install gentoo in three
>>> days, most of the time doing three massive compile jobs, one to make
>>> the base, the next to add X11/desktop, and the last to add
>>> applications.
>
>>Rubbish. The base comes as a stage3 tar file... just untar it and then
>>setup portage and then you update.
> I use stage 3 as well. And it is out of date and only good for a starting
> place as just about everything in it will have to be updated. Gcc and Glib
> alone require 3 hours.
> X11 alone takes 4 hours; kde alone takes 12 hours.
> I like to build my only applications instead of using binaries. Openoffice
> needs 3 hours.
X11 and kde aren't in stage3.
How about using xfce and koffice instead of openoffice and kde?
>>I can get a gentoo box up in less than 2 days.
>
> I'm happy for you. Does your amazing speed refute my argument that it is
> false to say that only somebody like Mr. Torvalds can do it in under a week?
I'm sure Linus can do it. You can do it... you *could* do it faster if
you didn't want to go for so much bloat...
12 hours for KDE... keeerist!!! Are you installing the whole kit and
kaboodle?
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Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
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