Re: The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-08 Thread Stefan Schaeckeler
Hi there, > On Thursday 08 September 2011 11:53:28 Stefan Schaeckeler wrote: > > Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ... > > your are talking about a serious problem. Absolutely. Billions are spend on Green Computing and even PhD these

The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-07 Thread Stefan Schaeckeler
Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ... Just the other day, I bought a kill-a-watt. Among other things, I measured the "cost of a source based package system", i.e. I was comparing the energy cost of installing ports from source vs binary packages (setup, see b