So anyway, it was like, 19:34 CET Feb 15 2007, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Kelly Price was all like, "Dude,
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:41:41 +0100, Wim Cossement
> <wcosseme@nospam.bcol.be> probably wrote (unless it was a Kook):

>> I was wondering why it takes so long since there has been an
>> installable release or LiveCD from Gentoo.
>>
>> The 2006.1 is about one year old (and the latest AFAIK), so I lack
>> some support (but not only with Gentoo ;-) from my brand new PC's I
>> want it to run on with a SATA HD.
>
> There's also a time factor with 2006.1. There's been several new
> releases of Portage, GCC, glibc, and many core utilties. Once you're
> passed the initial install, you should "emerge -avDuN world" and be
> prepared to wait a day or two as it updates... basically everything.

Seriously, it won't take a couple of days to update the toolchain.
Well, maybe on.. I don't know what, really. That old Sparc-4 I have,
perhaps. It might need 24 hours for glibc. 36, even. On modern
hardware tho, hardly more than a few hours?

(generic amd64 for reference)
-----8<-----
Wed Feb 14 02:41:03 2007 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.5
merge time: 2 hours, 28 minutes and 30 seconds.

Fri Sep 8 14:01:46 2006 >>> sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r3
merge time: 2 minutes and 56 seconds.

Tue Feb 6 10:03:39 2007 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3
merge time: 39 minutes and 25 seconds.
----->8-----

There's not /that/ much stuff in the tarball, is it? Most of the stuff
you get fresh from the In-ter-web right from the bootstrap phase and
onward.

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