From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 27 19:53:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEAD37B417; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:53:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13673; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:53:31 -0800 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id TAA14076; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:53:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:53:30 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200112280353.TAA14076@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what a can of worms! (Gnome flames) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey, I once tried to do a pure make kde2 from the ports and it took more than a day on a 300 Mhz. Granted it was a 56k modem, but at least 80% of the time was in the compile. I gave up and used the CD's. When you look at the gnome philosophy, which is having a bazillion g-apps written by everyone and their cousin all interlocking in even more bizarre ways (relative to the more central kde, which is baroque enough) -- well hats off to all of you doing the compiles. Perhaps the team should consider a gports of gdeps or something to keep track of it all. (FLAME ON) the biggest linux-ism (I'd say GNU-ism, but I'm not sure GNU would have done it this way) I encounter in day to day life is the lack of rhyme or reason to the packages, which is why you need a redhat or a suse to sort through them. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message