On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 6:42:43 PM MST Randy Barlow wrote: > On Wed, 2019-11-06 at 01:24 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Actually, it could also mean that Gentoo users are just in a habit of > > not complaining, no matter what. :-) After all, those are the same > > users who find it perfectly fine that installing the kernel or > > LibreOffice takes days (at least in the early years). ;-) > > Heh, true. I don't have a graphical Gentoo install these days, but last > I tried it LibreOffice did take a few days (maybe 2-3?). KDE was epic > too. The kernel actually isn't so bad, as long as you only build the > modules you need for your hardware. gcc takes a long time too, due to > the staged builds.
A bit off topic, but: I build my own kernel with Fedora. Have to, as I'm running on an Asus C201P. It generally takes anywhere from one to 4 hours to build the kernel I use, on the Asus C201P itself. It takes 40 minutes at most on my other laptop, a Core 2 Duo X200 Tablet @ 1.2GHz. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
