On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 08:23:43 -0600, Collins Richey wrote: > > Yes, you are likely to encounter all of the above, and no, there is no > quick fix. I do have a permanent solution to offer: install gentoo. I > have nothing against LFS - a perfectly fine distro, and a good learning > experience, but using LFS means that you must become your own dependancy > wizard (time and again). I'm basically lazy. Although it is a matter > of reading interest to know that package A depends upon B that depends > upon libs D E F which may in turn break package G etc., I don't want to > deal with that myself. For that work, I've hired a world wide team of > subject matter experts at a very reasonable price (namely zippo): the > gentoo development team.
Thanks Collins. Until a year ago the only distro I had run in earnest was SuSE - having used most of v.6 and v.7. I had reached the point where I was running vanilla kernels and almost all my applications were self-compiled - so the rpm stuff was mostly just getting in the way, and the complexity of the distro (lots of indirection), was a bar to me learning more. I decided it was Gentoo or LFS and I actually installed Gentoo first. I could see all the advantages, yet the very convenience of e-builds again left me feeling that I was not fully in control and would not learn as much as I wanted. Also, at that time, there seemed to a couple of issues with Gentoo - the one that springs to mind was CUPS, which I could not get going and one of the CUPS gurus was saying loud and long that the e-build was defective. I therefore took myself off to LSF and I have *really* enjoyed it - but I admit that it now leaves me with this big problem of updating the gcc / glibc core. It is not that I mind rebuilding LFS / BLFS itself, but the hours of post-installation fine-tuning will be a pain - I should have kept better notes as I went along. I have been toying with the idea of Gentoo again recently and I will certainly consider is seriously before I do a fresh LFS installation. Regards, Geoff _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
