On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 03:51, Andrew Bennetts wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:34:37PM +1000, Ben de Luca wrote: > > > > > Does spending hours compiling really save you time? Does your system really > > > run so much faster that it outweighs the time spent compiling? > > Well it doesnt really take that much time off me. If i want a bit of > > software, I can normaly set up and @ job and know its there in the > > morning. The interactive speed of a gentoo system seems to be > > significantly faster than the binary distrobutions I have used. > > Well, there's no reason why you couldn't do this with other distros as well. > They all provide the source.
to true, I never said you couldnt its just nice to be able to do its with one line. > > Its central system for install new software is great (yes i know deb can > > do this too). I prefer to configure my systems, by the use of files and > > not some OS specific application.I know where all the files i need to > > configure live, rather than having to track down some weird app. > Debian generally uses config files in predictable places for configuration > (thanks to its strict packaging policies), but does provide a few > configuration tools, for instance for XFree86 -- but even that's optional. > I've heard horror stories about people attempting to configure X and so > forth from scratch on Gentoo, which sounds like wasted effort when it's a > solved problem in most distros, but perhaps Gentoo is now a little more > advanced? you support my argument here, genrally is not equal to always. As for problems with X11 setup it should be easy as XFree86 --configure, this should work for all XFree86's no matter if its on debian, redhat, slackware, yellow dog, and all those wonderfull bsd's. > > As i mentioned in an earlier post, I run a few different arch machines > > here at home. And it suits me to have to only download source files. I > > dont want to have to download 3 binary files. > > Again, I still don't see why Gentoo is special here :) > > Overall i find that gentoo suits my needs so thats why I use. It may not > > be right for everyone. > > Well, if it suits you and you're happy, it's hard to argue with that :) Really I started this all off by asking what was wrong with gentoo, and I havnt really heard much about that. Most of the replies were whats great about debian. <and now to attract some wonderful flames> The major reason that I stay clear of debian is that there appears to be a VERY vocal miniority that want to go far out of there way to win a my distro is better than yours competetion. Technicaly I think debs a great achievment. And i would probably use it but for these people. Ben de Luca -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
