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322234 2005-02-07 05:48:00 8 hours is incredibly fast... Compiling on my P2 300 Mhz a basic server setup took about 5 days (This was redoing GCC and GlibC admittedly).

I got it down to 10 hours on my P4 2.8Ghz.
Using gcc-3.4 helps with the speed, it seems to take less time to compile.

netstat doesnt seem to do what I want :(


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
322235 2005-02-07 05:58:00 That is compiling the OS from source with Gentoo. You don't normally use pre-compiled binaries unlike other distro's, hence the faster installation with them. :)

You could, of course, load a running system from packages in about 20 mins, and then rebuild from source in the background whilst you are working.
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322236 2005-02-07 06:38:00 5 days huh? what do you have to do?how do you do it? (sorry for getting off topic here) Prescott (11)
322237 2005-02-07 09:45:00 You could use the binaries vinref, thats what Stage3 installs are for though... then you recompile with gcc-3.4 and some nice C/LDFLAGS.

Prescott:
I dont spend 5 days sitting there in front of it.
Thats LFS (Linux From Scratch), if you really wanna do that.

I might type:
emerge mozilla-firefox
It'll then go off and grab everything that Firefox depends on, such as X, freetype (or xft, whatever), gtk+, and a myriad of other things. It downloads and compiles them.

Its like an easy-bake oven, just set it and forget it.

I only have to intervene if there's been an issue while it compiles.

This is on a _very_ slow box used for a server remember so theres pretty few things that need to be built. I wouldnt run a Desktop on it!


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