--- martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes! this would be great! gentoo-feeling for debian! as i use debian linux > and i am trying gentoo for the first time... > > i like debian, and the apt-utilities do a good job, but they are not perfect.
Yup no OS is perfect. There are several things I like about Debian and yet I'd like to recompile key libraries for speed. Optionally. > the idea behind gentoo's package management system is ahead of the apt-utils, > > i think. Well, DebToo makes recompiling completely optional. > if there will be a similar behaviour (compiling from the latest sources) > available for debian this would be really really great! Probably not. Seems like far less work if you like Debian's feature X, modify the Gentoo source to include this (and submit the code back to Gentoo), rather than changing all of Debian to support downloading the original sources and compiling ala Gentoo. Join the team! We could use some help getting started. ===== /dev/idal "GNU/Linux is free freedom" --Me __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
