>You compiled it? Why? Learning exercise >Why not compile on a different architecture thats faster or use distcc to make a compile farm? Last times I used Gen

>You compiled it? Why? Learning exercise >Why not compile on a different architecture thats faster or use distcc to make a compile farm? Last times I used Gentoo I just used the packages, took no longer to install than an rpm based distribution. Well this was 10 years ago. I was 17 or so and I didn't know about distcc. I was young, dewy-eyed, and a huge noob.