I was doing this on an Athlon 550, and compiling the next part was always interrupted by something (work and sleep). So I dont know how much time it actually took, but 7 hours is a long time for something like that. Glad I dont use it >>
Granted it is a long time, however I was doing a speed comparison between the i386-compiled Slack packages and built from source. KDE was *ALOT* faster built from source. Plus ports just works so much nicer/seamlessly than Slackware build scripts.