I've got my home machine configured to run emerge sync every
Saturday morning. I get up late on Saturdays, putz around the
house for awhile, get some coffee and look to see what the Gentoo
boys have cooked up over the past week.
The Joy of Ricing
I've got my home machine configured to run emerge sync every
Saturday morning. I get up late on Saturdays, putz around the
house for awhile, get some coffee and look to see what the Gentoo
boys have cooked up over the past week.
Today I got a double whammy early Christmas extravaganza. It seems that a couple of days ago that OpenOffice 2.0 went stable. Friends, I've been looking forward to this release for awhile, but not looking forward to the recompilation. Last time I did it, it took about a day and a half on this machine (a dog slow 350MHz P-II).
But this pales in comparison to the other big surprise: the release gods have finally blessed the GCC 3.4.4 compiler. Installing this bad boy pretty much means that you recompile everything you have.
So... that's what I'm doing. I mean, what the hell. I leave the computer on 24/7 anyway so I might as well run emerge in background.
I started this insanity about 3:00 this afternoon. We'll see how long
it takes to finish emerge system (98 components), and then we'll
move on to emerge world -- where the big stuff lives. Yippee Skippy.
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