[very OT] Minimising system compiling time

[Sami Samhuri]

* On Wed Apr-06-2005 at 12:51:38 AM +0200, Jean-Fran?ois Wauthy said:
> Le mardi 05 avril 2005 ? 15:50 -0700, Sami Samhuri a ?crit :
> > * On Tue Apr-05-2005 at 12:56:37 PM -0700, Brian J. Tarricone said:
> > > Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > 
> > > >I'm running Gentoo on a dual-Opteron box and from time to time I decide
> > > >to recompile the entire system - absolutely everything on the disk apart
> > > >from a handful of binary packages. Needless to say, this takes a long
> > > >time, and I'd like to find the best setup for shortening it.
> > > >
> > > Simple solution: stop wasting your time and don't recompile your 
> > > system.  There's really no reason to do so,
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Stop giving us Gentoo users a bad name!
> 
> just FYI Brian is using gentoo and so am i... we're the only Xfce devs
> using it and we (at least me ;) ) are proud of that :?

That's good to hear. I'm proud too, but it's unfortunate that we get
labelled as "ricers" [1], even if it is by just a few people. I'd say
the average Gentoo user isn't heavily customising CFLAGS etc... but
that's just my impression. I think the fact that Portage (heart of Gentoo
for non-gentoo-users) is being ported to so many other OSs says a _lot_
about it's usefulness and robustness. :)

[1] http://funroll-loops.org/

-- 
Sami Samhuri
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