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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:56:28 +0200
From:      Shaun Jurrens <shaun@online.no>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: where are the README.html files in ports when cvs?
Message-ID:  <19990621095628.A92165@dakota.online.no>
In-Reply-To: <19990621004354.F23254@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 12:43:54AM -0500
References:  <19990619151452.B381@norn.ca.eu.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990620043724.14320a-100000@cygnus.rush.net> <19990621004354.F23254@futuresouth.com>

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On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 12:43:54AM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
#> 
#> I would give my left arm for XFree86 to be -j'able.  (I practically
#> knawed it off waiting last time I built X anyway, so it's no big loss).
#> Am I the only one who finds it offensive (or at least ironic) that a
#> windowing system takes longer to build than the entire OS?
#> 
No. I can join you in your frustration.  After 3 attempted builds (bad consultation at the beginning with an all-to-small / partition) and some fat symlinks to provide the needed over 200mb swap, I finished the build in about 3 hours.  Pretty weak for a K-6(2) 350. A little -j8 might of helped.

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Yours truly,

Shaun D. Jurrens
shaun.jurrens@stud.uni-regensburg.de 

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