On Mon April 12 2004 11:15, nick wrote: > On April 11, 2004 09:37 pm, Curtis Sloan wrote: > > On Sat April 10 2004 21:56, nick wrote: > > > On April 10, 2004 02:22 pm, Curtis Sloan wrote: > > > > I don't use Gentoo, but I do compile the most recent ALSA source > > > > releases in addition to the kernel driver (can't get enough bleeding > > > > edge ;-) > > > > > > Which would be a good reason to use gentoo. ;-D > > > > Touch�. :-) I am not opposed at all to using Gentoo; my two outstanding > > reasons for not using are: 1) I only have a PIII 450MHz w/ 256MB RAM and > > compiling WINE alone takes two hours, and 2) I can be unsettlingly lazy > > sometimes (i.e. untested binary packages are my friends sometimes). ;-D > > > > Feel free to refute either of these reasons and you may convert me, > > especially point 1. ;-) > > I wont argue on either point except to point out that [as was said] with > emerge you don't even need to be at the machine and compiling is [usually] > so easy its a trivial task [it takes care of dependancies on its own, etc. > I know RPM dependancies can be a huge headache from personal experience]. > Also for the really large [X, KDE, Gnome, OOo etc] packages there are > binaries available, and you can even throw the binary in to use, then > compile your own later [say while youre sleeping] and emerge will keep > everything in order. You can even stop and resume emerge later. Anything > you emerge can be put into your own custom binary package for quick use > later as well. Its a damn sexy tool.
Cool, I didn't know some of that (stop and resume, for example). Thanks, Nick! Now you guys got me seriously thinking! And I just got my machine nice and stable, too. ;-) Thanks, Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
