On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Ben de Luca wrote:
> > > > 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. > I agree with this, I like being able to have everything compiled for my system, if I wanted a OS that was designed to run everything, I would use windows. > 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. > in what sense? Gentoo integrates a lot of components of other distro's and OSs, for instance the portage tree, similar to the awesom slackware and freebsd ports collections, which make installing something so much easier. > > > > 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? I thought the idea of open source was that we could all choose to use it in the best way we see fit, if you dont like the questions posed by gentoo users send them to /dev/null. I dont see the point of open source, if your always going to use pre-compiled binaries. Gentoo is the reason I finally started using Linux again, after 3 happy years with FreeBSD, I finally have a OS that is compiled explicitly for my hardware, has only the software *I* want on it, and does what I want. Cheers, Patrick > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
