On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:28:46PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote > You know, I've been meaning to ask this for a couple of weeks... why > does anyone care whether or not Gentoo gets their head out of their > collective ass regarding shipping blackbox or not?
Because it's always nicer to have your distro's package manager take care of install/update and dependancy management. E.g. I started off with a barebones Gentoo text-console-only install. Then I asked it to install GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). Gentoo emerged X, and then Gtk, and then GNOME base, and and a few other things, and then proceded to emerge GIMP. Having started years ago on Redhat, I really appreciate this level of dependancy management. The only downside is that it's recommended to emerge with either --pretend or --ask, to be able to back off in case installing one program ends up requiring mondo dependancies that take hours to build. > Gentoobies are all about version churn. Hey, I resemble that remark. The big thing about Gentoo is the ability to optimize for *MY* machine. My compile flags are... CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse" On my 5 and 1/2 year-old Dell, 128 megs of RAM and 450 mhz PIII, I need all the speedup I can get. That's the reason I run Blackblox rather than GNOME or KDE. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html
