Dont worry Chris the novelty will soon wear off.
Dale.
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:29, Jason Greenwood wrote:
Yes, I know, similar on Drake. That doesn't work too well on non-Gentoo systems now does it?
True.
And if you don't want to compile??
Ah. But _you_ don't compile, your computer - directed by the Gentoo .ebuild script - does. You do not have to know one iota about what it's doing.
Compiling is nothing to be allergic to, honestly it's no big deal.
There's the rub. Different distros, er, strokes for different folks.
Indeed, vive la differance.
Compiling all that on a less than modern machine aint exactly going to be quick now is it?
It all depends on how you define "quick", it's going to be a _great deal_ faster - even on a 600MHz machine - than footling around until 03:00am looking for some weird rpm file to d/l.
Took me 5 minutes of downloading over 128K adsl and then 2 minutes of installing and I was done... =)
You conveniently forget the time taken to find the particular file you need, and then fighting all the demons living in rpm hell. Been there, done that, _never_ again. Remember that Linux is an Open _Source_ system. imho binary distributions of it are an anachronism from 10 years ago when the ordinary personal user was lucky to have a 33 Mhz '486 with 8 megs of ram. That sort of machine could not do very much compiling at all. The situation today is that memory and speed are about a 100 times bigger and faster than there were then. Building packages from source is quite practical now-a-days.
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!!!
For a machine used by a single user I agree completely, but for a machine used concurrently by many users shared object libraries do save massive amounts of still somewhat precious memory.
Cheers
Jason
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:53, Jason Greenwood wrote:
The setup was straightforward and quick once I found the right info - which took me until 3am (!)....
3am Egads ( !!! )
emerge --sync ( approx 10 minutes, paradise cable is nice ) emerge vlc ( or xine, or mplayer, or ogle, or kaffeine ) Cook and eat dinner. Watch film.
Do we need another Gentoo mini-InstallFest?
