vikram ranade schreef: > oki I am still stuck at installing gnome......taking forever to > compile.... :-(
Sympathies.... Gnome as a whole isn't so bad; it's just that some of the packages required in the full GNOME monty are among the longest to compile-- most notably mozilla. Even stripped via USE flags (-mozcalendar -mozdevelop +moznocompose +moznoirc +moznomail -moznoxft +mozsvg), it still takes till doomsday to compile, and a number of programs in the full 'gnome' metapackage depend on it. Which is the main reason.... I hate to bring it up, since you're already in the middle of the compile, but you probably should know.... which is one of the reasons that I never 'emerge gnome' but always 'emerge gnome-light' instead. But maybe you need Mozilla and Epiphany and Evolution and Evolution Data Server and Sound (bloody) Juicer, in which case, you must suffer the bloated time-consuming compile. On the occasions that I need such an awful compile during the installation process (for instance, I usually want to at least install kdelibs, which also takes forever, because I use a lot of KDE apps, though rarely KDE itself), I usually install a very light WM, like IceWM, as the last stage of install, just to have something I can use to boot into, and have something like a completed system (meaning "with X") installed, from which I then compile GNOME or KDE or whatever. Even WindowMaker or AfterStep will do for this purpose, if you like those WMs (and there's plenty to like about them, despite their advanced age and lack of 'modernness'). Heaven knows, they take some 10 or 15 minutes to compile, if that long, and of course system-dependent; I have an Athlon XP 2200+ and 512MB ram, so not really a super-charged setup, though naturally much faster than some of the PIIs and PIIIs I know exist around here-- and the compilation time does not include X of course, but there's no getting around that whatever WM or DE you install. The quick compile of the older WMs is not to be sneezed at by any means, and WindowMaker and AfterStep are pretty usable out of the box, even for those who didn't 'grow up with' them, as many old-school users did. IceWM is for those who 'grew up with' Windows, and is probably a better choice for users who 'grew up with' Win95 and 98. Just ideas for the future, in case you ever need/want/are asked to install Gentoo to another machine. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
