Gentoo question

[Loïc Martin]

Michael V. De Palatis a écrit :
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:35:12AM +0200, Lo?c Martin wrote:
>   
>> I'd like to know if it's possible to download all the stuff necessary 
>> for a Gentoo installation (DVD might be the best) so I could have 
>> something to play with during my holiday... I'm looking for an X system 
>> with xfce/wmaker/open office/scim/inkscape/amarok/blender and maybe (if 
>> it's faster than on Ubuntu) gnome or kde.
>>     
>
> Well, you might be able to download everything you need, but waiting
> for it all to compile is another story!
>
> Whoops, better turn off the flamebait tag. </flamebait>
>
> Mike
>   
Personally, I find more annoying the half a second delay that occurs 
regularly in Ubuntu when I'm drawing in Inkscape or the Gimp, because 
that (short for other uses) delay messes up the whole drawing. Depending 
on everyone's uses, that can be a real showstopper (whereas I perfectly 
understand that a programmer won't be hindered that much by the 
occasional short delay that might occur when refreshing a terminal.

Oh, and the frequent half a second glitch when playing a movie (it 
didn't occur in Breezy) is really a problem when you can't understand 
what a character is saying and has to go back a few seconds ten times a 
movie :)

I'd rather let the computer compile everything at night and end up with 
a system that's usable (for me), without having to invest in a new 
machine (and since some of the problems are due to configuration or 
programming, they might occur even on a high-end system). The state of 
wmaker packages in Ubuntu is so bad (looks like old Debian 
configuration, with no changes done to adapt it to Ubuntu) that I'll 
have to spend a few hours to configure it anyway. I think it would be 
more productive to spend these few hours learning the quirks of Gentoo :)

Loïc