On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:58:23AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > So all in all, I agree. Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter > > of performance optimization but of better control of how to build the > > packages and the rolling release nature (I'm tired of major updates > > every 6 months in the majority of binary distros.) I also like the USE > > flags which let me chose how to build something and get rid of > > dependencies I don't need. Administrative features like dispatch-conf > > are also very useful. > > This is the main benefit of Gentoo for me. I have to use SuSE or RHEL at work > for the database machines - Sybase will not support any other other distro - > and the 1G+ base install from those distros drive me nuts. Contrast that with > the DNS caches which run FreeBSD, the difference is about a factor of 5 if > not more. > > I also get sick and tired of installing postfix on a database machine purely > to send nagios alerts, and watching the distro "helpfully" want to pull in > PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP, SASL, Courier and some fancy MTA-switcher thingy. > All because the maintainer enables those features and now I gotta have them. > > No thanks. Rather give me USE so I say what goes on the box. > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com >
Often on gentoo related IRC chanels comes someone who asks why his firefox-bin (or openoffice-bin or *-bin) runs faster than his built-from-source firefox. Usually chan's gurus answer that upstream packagers use all the possible compiler optimizations (CFLAGS LDFLAGS etc.) for the given package, while the average gentoo users keeps a set of "system wide very safe optimizations" that are good for most packages, but not the best for every particolar package. Is that statement correct? ======= TopperH =======
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