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I remember Gentoo taking more than a full day to compile on my computer back then. It did teach me a lot though, will always have a soft spot for it.
by totallywrong 3y ago
I remember Gentoo taking more than a full day to compile on my computer back then. It did teach me a lot though, will always have a soft spot for it.
- entropie 3y agoYeah, A day was pretty normal. I installed gentoo on a workmachine at a new job, like a dual xeon something with 64gb ram back in a time where 8gb ram on a worstation was plenty. I had a blast. It took "only" like 3 hours to get my usual to go system. Unfortunately I need haskell on my workstation (xmonad) and ghc can easily take alone like 5-20+ hours compile time on older computers. I compiled ghc a few times on an old t41 - it took more than a day. Still, gentoo is my first choice. I run it on a few root servers and every workstation.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoYeah, IME it's always a tiny number of packages; IIRC my system only took a day to build because webkit took most of that time, and I didn't even try to compile firefox. (In fact, some of my setup retains the expectation of running firefox from a tarball from Mozilla specifically because I used to run gentoo)