On 03/04/2013 01:41, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 04/02/2013 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Oh, and "gentoo is fast" is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing >> :-) Nowadays we say the benefit of gentoo is USE so you get what *you* >> want :-) >> > > When I'm asked, I say that gentoo is extremely flexible and can be > tailored in almost infinite ways depending on its application. > > It's why I'm still using it on the desktop, maintenance time be damned. > I've tried other distros and always come back to gentoo. The lack of > flexibility with other package managers (or lack of being able to > replace the default package manager) on other distros is very > disappointing. Guess I've been spoiled too much...
You and me both :-) To this day on the servers at work I *still* reach to USE="-avahi -zeroconf -mdns -ldap -gnutls nls -other-bundled-crap" and then I remember oh wait, this is centos. Spoiled by Gentoo? Yes, indeed, most definitely. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
