How long to emerge Gnome???

verruckt · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 5:26 am Post subject: How long to emerge Gnome???

Ok, my ss20 build has gone pretty good so far. On sunday at 11:30am my time, I typed that fateful command "emerge gnome"

It is now Tuesday 11:25pm, and its still going. Holy $&*#!!! Anyone give me an idea how long to expect? Two 150mhz procs (not smp), 256mb ram, 3mb cable connection. Im amazed... Maybe I should have just gotten fluxbox... :roll:

devsk · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:22 am Post subject:

My 2.4GHz P4 x86 took 6 1/2 hours for gnome. P3 1Ghz took 15 hours. Extrapolating based on clock speed alone: you are about due...

Anyway, doesn't it show how many packages to go? Again, "emerge gnome" may have emerged fewer packages for me because I had lot of deps already installed. You probably didn't have much.

verruckt · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 11:58 am Post subject:

Yes, that makes a bit of sense now. Im going from a stage1 build, with nothing else really installed. Guess Ill just waiti it out.

It was still going at 6am Wed.

iain@hythe.net · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Hampshire, UK

Didn't time it but it felt like 3 days here on my Ultra 10. That was doing Gnome + X + Mozilla. It blew me out when it came to building Epiphany because I didn't build Mozilla with GTK+

so that had to be done again (sheesh, big package Mozilla) before I good continue with the last 40-odd packages.

Didn't have a mouse for my Type 5c keyboard so X refused to start but fortunately I built USB into the kernel and 'borrowed' a PCI USB card from Pooh (iP2/350) and Roo seemed to dig that. So Gnome lives!

Just installed a nice fat 120GB drive and I'm currently moving my /usr directory off of my tiny drive -- I think I'm gonna need the space.

Going well so far!

Iain.

halik · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 35

hmm i had the same problem with mozilla i think,
im doing emerge -u world and getting 2.6 to work. Once thats done, ill try to emerge gnome again.

USE=gtk+ should fix that, right?