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Re: A GNU/Hurd Roadmap dream


From: Sergiu Ivanov
Subject: Re: A GNU/Hurd Roadmap dream
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:44:54 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:26:37PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> On Sunday, 7. June 2009 13:16:04 Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> > I remember Duck (I'm awfully sorry for not remembering his real name
> > :-( ) mentioning something about compiling kde4libs :-)
> 
> That would be great! 
> 
> But I would also go for first doing it in dwm. I'll just have to select 
> another email client then - and set it up with GnuPG. 
> 
> And I know the problem about real names - as soon as my brain starts 
> referring 
> to people by their nick names, I need an address book to find the real names 
> :) 

Oh yeah... It happens often for me, too :-)
 
> > This is true, but I wonder how much the somewhat reduced speed of the
> > Hurd may influence the build times of portage packages... Given that
> > the Hurd is often used in virtualized environments, this should be a
> > matter of concern, since .debs will install faster.
> 
> As long as you use the same host architecture and USE-flags, you can just 
> create binpackages on one machine and then let others use that machine as 
> binhost (just install the binary packages), so it shouldn't matter too much 
> (I 
> hope :) ). 

Aha, so we come back to binary packages :-)

I'd like to state, though, that I fully agree with antrik on the
matter that having Gentoo GNU/Hurd developed would be great because it
could explore another use-case of the Hurd and bring some more people
into the community.

(And, anyway, I built my emacs from source, since apt didn't want to
help me :-) )
 
> My first install took me three days, though, so you should plan some free 
> time. And I wouldn't play too much - it's very easy to get carried away with 
> all the options it offers ;-)
> 
> About a month ago I needed 2 days - one for the backup (the worst part - I 
> double- and triplechecked it to avoid dataloss), 4 hours for deciding and 
> doing exactly what I want, the rest of the day for letting my computer 
> compile 
> the system while I do something else :-) 

Thanks for information! :-)

Regards,
scolobb




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