[wplug] question for Gentoo users

[John Strange]

Well,

My first few times with the system was very time consuming, which is why
I uninstalled it.  After going back to redhat it felt SO slow that I had
to switch back eventually.

When I first build the system I usually do the emerge overnight, and
unless you're building on an older machine it doesn't take that long to
build while you are afk.

The best way I found to emerge things like X was using things like
gnome, emerge -p gnome would do X, and quite a few other things in one
big fell swooop.  Emerge is rough around the edges, but so was
everything else in the beginning.

Be careful on going back to redhat, to me it's not the drive space bloat
that kills me, it's the unresponsiveness I feel from when I've installed
redhat vs. gentoo.  Redhat back in the days of redhat 4.2 felt snappy,
it's lost that snappy feeling but with gentoo even running gnome/kde
feels snappy once again.

Of course this is totally IMHO.

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 14:24, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> 	Just wondering - how long did it take you Gentoo users out there to
> get to a system that (reasonably) had all the functionality you were looking
> for.  For me, the honeymoon is somewhat over - I am happy to consider the
> relative bloat of a, say, Red Hat install in exchange for the days of
> emerging I'm doing currently.
> 
> 	I will say that it's been an awesome learning experience, but
> there's still some rough edges to the emerge process that can result in a
> little bloat (like chromium requiring kdelibs (USE flag is _not_ set) -
> wassup with that).  I just don't have days to compile..... I've been working
> on this thing on and off here at work, and it's taken at least a week of
> attention to get to the point where I have X, fluxbox, and a few games &
> apps....
> 
> Don
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