On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:43, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > The primary feature of Gentoo is that everything is compiled to suit your > machine. The secondary feature is that as a result of this, the problems > other distribution have with library dependencies just go away.
How so? I can understanding compiling everything for your machine for (small-ish?) optimisation reasons... but how does this solve library dependencies? If program 'foo' requires library 'bar', I will still need 'bar' when I come to link against it at compile time... Maybe different library versions could be more of a pain with binary package systems? But even so, if you stick to packages provided for your distro / by said distro [maintainers] it should all be fine. (major reason I like Debian, package quality). And as for "3rd party" packages [/source] ... they can be equally a pain on both systems, no? Not bashing Gentoo here btw - I think Gentoo sounds cool, and next time I re-format my drive (last time I formatted was back with ext2, I really need to format it as ext3 some time, get annoyed with fsck checks, grr) I'll probably leave some space for a Gentoo partition... but could you please explain the reasoning behind "library dependencies just go away"? Cheers, Gareth
