Well, there are certain VERY LARGE packages (XFree86, KDE) that offered in binary give the novice a greater oppurtunity to experience what they would consider a 'working' system. For me, once I can reboot with my base system (No X, wm's, etc..) then I'm a happy camper and proceed to emerge MOST packages from source. I like to grab OpenOffice and Mozilla in binary because I usually grab the latest beta available for them. If a package isn't available in Portage then I'm more than happy to grab the source and build away. Of course even in RH I learned to build from source whenever possilbe and avoid the 'ease of use' RPM's. To each his own of course. That's the freedom of Linux ain't it? :)
Mr O. --- Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to Gentoo, and curious -- I think the live cd's are an > amazing > promotional tool, also very functional for many tasks and even > offer the > potential for a functioning "production" system even -- see > Mr. O's > latest post. But I've read through: > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml > and have confirmed what I thought about gentoo being oriented > toward > customizability (in terms of code; do I have that right?)... > so what's the deal with gentoo-distributed binary package > sets?? > That seems contradictory (beyond the promotional and rescue > uses of a > bootable cd); are Gentoo users finding that they don't really > want to > compile *everything* after all? So the new goal is to have a > binary > starting point, and emerge your own particular interests and > concerns > from source so that they are the very latest code and also > customized > for your scenario...? Was there extensive threads about > whether or not > to do binary release, or did it just make sense at some point? > This sort of blurs the reasonig of why Gentoo is so special, > for me; so > please explain. Thanks! > > BB __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
