On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:11:30AM -0700, Chris de Vidal wrote: > Lots of up-to-date packages? Yep. Debian "unstable" (quite stable for me, > thank-you) is very current. Not as current as Gentoo, but certainly more > current than, say, RedHat or Mandrake. As an ex-RedHat user, it's impressive.
Yes unstable has fairly up-to-date packages, but when as I understand it unstable doesn't get security updates right away (please correct if wrong). This is a problem for a server, or just about any machine on a LAN. > Auto-built using optimization settings and build-time functionality that I > want? Yep. Apt-build supports extra compile-time options. You seem to be overlooking the "build-time functionality that I want" part, which is what USE variables are all about. I like the fact that because I said USE encryption, I automatically get the gaim encryption plugin, enigmail for mozilla, etc. I especially like the fact that because I said USE -gpm I don't have any gpm support in anything. The last time I tried to run debian these were the things that bothered me. I either had to use old packages or get no/slow security updates. I couldn't choose what functionality I wanted in each package. Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
