On December 11, 2013, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > Don't forget, on gentoo you can use distcc to farm out compilation tasks,
That is true. Something I've done a few times. Although to distcc something like KDE you needed to throw some symlinks into your path BEFORE ld and nm. Again, this was 10+ years ago for me, but what I had to do then to get distcc to compile KDE (the compile was fine, but ld barfed badly, expecting some g++ specific symbols to be defined, and distcc didn't define them) was: # mkdir /dcc # for F in cc gcc c++ g++ as nm ld; do ln -s /usr/bin/distcc /dcc/$F; done # export PATH="/dcc:$PATH" THAT made KDE compile fine. But it's a bit of a pain to have to remember to do that. :) And yes, making binary packages could solve that for when you're setting up multiple machines. But still.... :) > This is one reason I see gentoo as such a big win--it's so ridiculously > easy to customize a package to exactly the features you need (leaving out > entire swaths of unused code paths, dependencies, and possible security > holes) and then you can distribute this to other machines all using the > self-same built-in package management mechanism. Agreed. The customization is exactly the reason I started with Gentoo in the first place. :) > I recall distinctly several times of the years seeing a security > vulnerability announced in some package, checking my use flags, and finding > that I was not vulnerable because I had not included that feature in my > build. All the binary distro users had to update whether they were using > the feature or not because their binary blob always had it included... Been there, done that. On both sides. I definitely prefer the Gentoo approach on that one. You're succeeding in reminding me WHY I went to Gentoo in the first place. Plus there's the cute little factoid that lovely Tux is actually a Gentoo penguin. That's what his species/race of penguin is called in nature. Of course we all know penguins don't really have orangeish beaks and feet, but what the heck. He's still cute. :) Kind of speaks to me. Tux is a gentoo penguin, and I use Gentoo Linux. :) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
