Gentoo on KDE website

[steveD]

I go to KDE website (www.kde.org) in the download section for KDE 3.0.1, I see the folder Gentoo (next to other distros). There are no 3.0.1 binaries in this folder yet. There is 1 file showing how to install the binaries. Hopefully, there will be KDE binaries there in the future, so some people can install without going thru long compilation time.

[Klavs]

If you want a binary, why do you use Gentoo? the reason why you recompile is to squeeze those 10-15% extra performance (or much more? hoping some benchmarks will show up some day), and another benefit an optimized recompiling gives you, is often much faster startup and response times, from especially KDE.

Unless ofcourse you expect KDE to deliver binaries for all the architectures supported by GCC-3.1?

Otherwise, I believe you can just install a RedHat RPM (using alien) if you want binaries. (or use Mandrake's that's compiled for i586 - a little better than 386 - don't know how much though.
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[klieber]

Don't pre-compiled binaries defeat most, if not all, of the purpose behind Gentoo?

It's the large apps like KDE, XFree86, etc where you're likely to gain the largest speed increase by compiling a version optimized for your machine.

--kurt
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[steveD]

The KDE binaries for Gentoo that the KDE team is going to make is for Pentium machines (686 binaries) with -O3 optimization (from the file I read there). If I compile KDE on my machine (Pentium II), the binaries will also be 686 binaries with -O3 optimization. Do I gain any perfomance in this case if I compile from source? I just save a lot of time from compiling big apps like KDE. I still use portage for compiling other stuff. I prefer using binaries for big packages like KDE, X if the binaries has the same optimization and machine type like my machine.

[klieber]