> just wondering what in gentoo makes it a waste of time?
(Ben originally asked this off-list, I answered it for him there.) I didnt mean to ask of list. so ill bring it back - Jeff > > just wondering what in gentoo makes it a waste of time? > The sheer boredom and pointlessness of compiling an entire distribution, for > a start! Beyond that, it's fragile, broken most of the time (I have to deal > with Gentoo bugs on GNOME stuff - hideous), and... I could go on. ;-) I like to optimise my system as much as possible, Im not in a situation that I can always have the most upto date hardware. I also have several machines with different achitecture. Seeing that downloading binaries is just a waste of my downloadable limit its nice to be able to get the src. Plus, they refuse to build on the expertise and > shared knowledge that has gone into the major distros. well I guess thats how you start a new distro. > Some Gentoo/LFS users say, "oh but hey, if we choose to waste our time, > what's wrong with that?" That'd be fine, if it were as simple as that. The > reality is that they waste a hell of a lot of developer time... I was > foolish enough to provide a tool for GNOME testers that is particularly > attractive to Gentoo/LFS/Slackware users (GARNOME), and man... Do I waste a > *ton* of time because of them. Pain! Are they real bugs they find? have you ever thought of ignoring them? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
