emerge gnome xscreenshot - how long?

dudinatrix · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2005 Posts: 22

I'm a Linux first-timer, and just finished my Gentoo installation. Even got my wireless working using niswrapper.

I executed :emerge gnome xscreenshot

... any idea how long this is going to take? (Pentium M 1.7GHz, 1GB RAM) ... the screen just keeps scrolling and scrolling with goodness, occasionally downloading files (pardon my n00bness, I've never done this before!).. is this normal? I've tried looking online to see how long it takes, and have read anywhere from 5 hours to 2 days.

I've seen some people say like "it's on package 168 of 172" or something like that... how can I tell how far I am?? It's just scrolling like mad.

Oh, and I hope this isn't bad.. but in my make.config USE i put

noup · l33t Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 917

Hi.
I really think you should take a look at the information in Gentoo System Documentation. It contains the basics for managing your Gentoo environment.

Answering your question, you wanted to say "xscreensaver" instead of "xscreenshot" right?
What's happening is that both gnome and xscreensaver and their dependencies are being emerged, and since Gnome is such a big project (contains tons of dependencies), it will obviously take very long. You should have used instead:

psylence · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:35 am Post subject:

No it's not bad having KDE and Gnome use flags, you'll just most likely get kde-base and all of gnome. That is essentially the bulk of KDE, and all of Gnome, which are individually huge, together they form some kind of mega huge the likes of which have never been seen.

Kidding of course. I'll take a good 10 hours, maybe more for all that to finish... Barring errors of course. If memory serves, the "stable" howl doesn't even compile, so it'll break there, and you'll want to put