how long did kde3 take for your to compile?

niyogi

It's been going on for about 10+ hours so far (from vanilla system, the first thing i did was "emerge kde")

I've got a K6-II 450 and 256MB ram.

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mkeadle · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Richmond, VA

Assuming "emerge kde" was the first things you typed (or close to it), it's probably going to take quite a while. If you haven't changed your USE variable and it still has it's default settings there are many other things that are going to be pulled in. Many, many things.

niyogi · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 3:48 am Post subject:

oh joy... what should I have done with the USE variables?

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niyogi · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 9:41 pm Post subject:

hopefully this forum will serve as a documentation base by itself.

i still don't know how to use the USE flag although with enough snooping and investigation, i'll find out.

Nitro · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 9:43 pm Post subject:

Should use --pretend to see all the junk that your USE flags are gonna dump in with it b4 compiling something big liek that
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pr0vidence · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Connecticut

Took my box a hair under 24 hours to compile KDE (2.2.2), I suspect kde 3 won't be much diffrent.

after completing the gentoo install the very first thing I did after reboot was "emerge kde" so it had to compile/install X as well.

Before the build was available I compiled and installed all the kde 3 BETA RC1 packages by hand, that took a full weekend. Mainly because it was not automatic. It's pretty nice.

The box is as follows
P2-400
128MB RAM
8.4GB hard drive
other less important devices (CD-ROM, floppy) when guaging overall speed.

dave · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 16 Location: Illinois

I didn't time it... started it about 2 hours prior to going to bed, when I woke up it was all compiled/installed, so less than 10 hours (Pentium IV 1.8 ghz).

mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

Whew. I thought I was crazy! I followed the Desktop Doc's to the T and it took me about 5 1/2 hours to compile...

niyogi · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 11:46 pm Post subject:

i wonder if there's *any* way for the emerge feature to have a constantly updated (rough) ETA by looking at your processor speed and memory...

hmm... perhaps a possible feature?

fghellar · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 4:33 am Post subject:

The merge time can be easily measured this way:

Nitro · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 5:32 am Post subject:

fghellar · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 6:24 am Post subject:

Nitro · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 11:37 am Post subject:

fghellar · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 12:00 pm Post subject:

Err... Well... Two points for you... I just tried it and it does indeed work...

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niyogi · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 2:30 pm Post subject:

what i was thinking was that users can figure out how long it would take for an emerge command *before* they go along and do it...

kopete took longer than i expected to emerge

Nitro · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 2:33 pm Post subject:

I was hoping you were going to reply with a quote of my message so it would be a quote of a quote of a quote.

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pr0vidence · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Connecticut

garrontmo · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Seattle, WA

What do the results of "time emerge whatever" mean. You get

real blah
user blah
sys blah

What does each of these represent.

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static · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 4:49 pm Post subject:

A.C. · Guest

I got used to gnome on debian -- I had no idea what the K guys were doing. But the gnome install (after about 10 hours of X compile) was too fast, so I hit KDE as well.

After some broken dependencies and a rebuild of KDEBase (because I'm an idiot), I got KDE up and running.

It's absolutely stunning. I'm blown away. Gentoo + KDE is the best system I've ever seen. AC/D

niyogi

ribcage · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 7

it took me about 14-16 hrs to compile all of KDE3. My system is:

Celeron 500
256mb
100 GBs'
Geforce2, and i810

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

A good while on my 533mhz celeron with 192meg ram: