On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 18:07, Carla Schroder wrote: > 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.
Don't forget Pacman! (archlinux.org) ArchLinux is a really nice distro and pacman is sweet. <flame>yum sucks, apt for rpm is much nicer.</flame> I would insert a smilie in here to make sure people knew I wasn't trying to be an flaming ass, but I've used my self imposed daily limit of 3 smilies already today... -Cory _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
