What are the packages you HATE to emerge and WHY ?

cach0rr0 · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 9:19 am Post subject:

-ghostscript
-anything qt-* (why the hell even offer a 'qt3support' USE flag if absolutely nothing is functional with it disabled? )
-toolchain

roelof · Guru Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 461

Quick23t

Why didn't you put a bug report on Freecad or put a message in the forum.
Now we can't solve this problem ?

Roelof

yngwin · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:42 pm Post subject:

Hupf · Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:22 pm Post subject:

seconding on OpenOffice: Usually I'm mounting /var/tmp as tmpfs, which I tend to forget switching off when emerging OOo, which happily starts without checking the available space beforehand (and aborting, if necessary), and then fails after hours of compiling.

Moriah · Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:23 pm Post subject:

kde and gnome -- because they suck in huge amounts of flab and I dont use them, but I do use an occasional tool or utility that was written by an author who was accustomed to having their libraries available, so to run one little useful tool, I get mountains of bloat and hours of compile every time they get updated. :evil:

Might as well have a libeverything!

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poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:48 pm Post subject:

app-portage/splat... sci-electronics/splat has the same name, and both are extraordinarily useful tools (the latter actually written by somebody nearby).

solution: rename the latter SPLAT.

With a fast enough computer, compile times matter not to me.

Thaidog · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:28 am Post subject:

sqlite always gives me trouble for some reason...

libpq isn't much better. ..

OpenOffice takes too long and then it doesn't work.

Actually never had an issue with KDE 3 it just takes too long.
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gkmac · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:53 pm Post subject:

cinelerra
mjpegtools
transcode

These packages are affected by the jpeg-7 segfault saga, thus requiring me to downgrade to an earlier jpeg (that I've had to retrieve from Gentoo CVS's attic into a local overlay), emerge them, and then re-emerge jpeg-7 back on top.
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Thaidog · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:54 am Post subject:

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Anything related to poppler...and it's still causing me trouble. You know this 10.xx.xx and 12.xx.xx issue.

yngwin · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:17 pm Post subject:

NathanZachary · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 8:16 pm Post subject:

I really don't like seeing a gcc, xulrunner, or openoffice update because of the long compilation times (old machine). I also don't like having to use closed-source binaries.
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InExile · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2010 Posts: 13

I hated the original Mozilla browser, it used to beep incessantly during compile. It got so annoying that I now exclude pcspkr from my kernel configuration.

Now adays it would be gcc, glibc. I dont update as often as I used to and I usually do it before bed so its not so bad.