The Gentoo Pain

[elfs]

According to my calculations, if everything went perfectly (bloody unlikely) and I used my laptop for nothing else (obviously not gonna happen), it would take 4 days, 17 hours, 28 minutes and 32 seconds for the upgrade system to properly install Japanese capability onto my laptop.

I swear, XMMS is psychic today.

Comments

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

XMMS is no longer in portage, by the way. That was removed about 6 months ago.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

XMMS is staying on my laptop even if I have to flaming build it with my own bare hands!

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

Well, there's an overlay at least, though it's not in layman: http://h0m3r.sdf-eu.org/xmms-overlay/

You could also give audacious a try. It looks very similar to xmms. Many themes have even been ported.

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

No love for Beep Media Player? It's basically XMMS with GTK2.

[ewhac.livejournal.com]

Good for you. XMMS is often lamented as a crufty piece of junk internally. But of all the other Linux media players I've tried, XMMS remains the lowest impact from a CPU standpoint. It also seems to have the most visualization plugins.

As for the four-day rebuild, that's what you get for using Gentoo. (*ducks*)

I recently updated my Debian system, and noticed that something fairly major had happened to libc6 and the locales database. I had to upgrade those packages separately before I could upgrade anything else.

use distcc

[(Anonymous)]

leaving an anonymous comment as I'm only a lurker on your lj...
You might want to think about using distcc to have your home box do at least part of your work, see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
I'm keeping my 1000mhz via epia machine up to date with it.