On Friday 04 April 2003 13:36, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: > I don't see much point in graphical installers, and actually not even > in the binary packages Gentoo already offers on the CD images. The > reason that even a plain RedHat install is bulky is simply because > they want to make all people happy, and turn on many --enable flags > when building their RPMs. Consequently, many dependencies arise. I > don't see how an 'Enterprise Gentoo Linux' install CD would change > that. Compiling from source is not really an option for the average > Linux user, I think.
I'll tell you why I like the GRP. I like gentoo a lot as a distribution. There is one disadvantage in gentoo. It takes a lot of time until the system has compiled all packages that make it usable for work. Some time ago I got a computer to work from at a company that participates in my research project. Of course I installed gentoo there. But I do have something better to do with my time then waiting for all compilation to be finished. That's why I got a cd with the GRP. I started with installing kde and mozilla (+deps) from the CD. From that moment on I could work. Of course As soon as I ran my desktop I started to emerge the packages according to my preferences, and get recent versions. But I didn't need to wait looking at the compile progress while it was busy. This was a pentium two, so getting to a useable state without the GRP would have taken me a lot of time (at least 24 hours). I do not like the redhat install either because of the same reasons that you give, and I do not believe in using the binary packages at any other place than installation, but during initial installation they are extremely useful. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv
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