-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:42:54PM +0100, bn wrote: > So, I would really want to understand where the Gentoo flexibility beats > down a binary distro. > > Don't get me wrong -I like Gentoo. Really. But the claim that a binary > distro is "unfixable" just because I had someone compiling it for me > instead of having emerge doing the job, looks odd to me.
For me, one big difference is in our use flags. Binary distros have to force you to install packages with all of their dependencies, but that is not required on gentoo since you can select which features you want to support. Another difference is that, since you are compiling everything from source, with the correct CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS settings in make.conf, you can optimize the binaries you produce to take full advantage of your processor, which you can't do on a binary distro since everything is already compiled for you. - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoRlvYACgkQblQW9DDEZThkyQCfc7F/1/rGuhVFq2xxtb57fmc7 AT4AnRQSLghiBHkREKly3le7rGN8fYsA =z+CH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
