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Originally Posted by Eldarion
Obviously no one here has gotten into the wonderful world of large-scale FPGA synthesis, or compiling the Linux kernel, for that matter. Those processes can take hours!!!  |
The ultimate compiling excuse would be running Gentoo linux, where virtually every installable package is compiled from source. On an older system I had, it took an entire week to get everything I needed compiled (kernel, bootloader, X, KDE, firefox, openoffice, etc).
Any time an update was available, I'd have to plan on not using that machine for a few hours while it compiled. Kind of annoying, but it's a great distribution to get under the hood and really play with the guts of linux.