On Thursday 08 July 2004 4:30 pm, Charlie Schluting wrote: > Grishnav wrote: > > �> > �> > �> Gentoo is rice. Binary packages are fast. Debian > * > �> > �> /flamebait > �> > > Sure... if the configure options are what you need, its way fast. WTF is up with all these users who > don't know how to compile things? RPMs and all binary packages actually suck.. for the above reason.
I bet you still rub sticks to make fire. On servers, obsessive-compulsive compiling, and monitoring every single installed bit makes a bit of sense. On a workstation, forget it. Then you use a nice package-based system with an intelligent dependency-resolver, like apt-get or yum. > Well, except, of couse, when you don't care what options are enabled. Which I guess linux newbs > could care less about. > > Hmmm. > > Its interesting watching Binary package-based distros morph into a Windows operating system... but > still, XP is much better at many things. > > How's that for some flamebait? �:) Ehh, a bit recycled. :) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
