On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:29:50 +1300 Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I know, similar on Drake. That doesn't work too well on non-Gentoo > systems now does it? And if you don't want to compile?? There's the rub. > Different distros, er, strokes for different folks. > > Compiling all that on a less than modern machine aint exactly going to > be quick now is it? Took me 5 minutes of downloading over 128K adsl and > then 2 minutes of installing and I was done... =) Statically linked RPMS > are even better than Gentoo for most smallish programs IMHO. No > dependency hell, just download, install, use. Simple. With modern cheap > hard drives, WHO CARES about library duplication?? I certainly don't!!! > > Cheers No-one will ever win the "my distro is better than yours, compiling is better than binaries" war, but don't forget that we gentooistas have to download the source code, you have to download the (static) binary. IMHO that part is six of one half a dozen of the other. I have never understood why people want broadband for gentoo, but will happily install a binary distro that immediately wants 500M of updates and are happy with a modem. gentoo and al the sources for a pretty full install are avilable from copyleft (Dunedin) on one dvd. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
