On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 19:55 +1100, Grant Byers wrote: > Before chosing a distribution such as Gentoo, you really need to stop and > ask yourself ;- > > 1. Do I have the time and patience to read all the relevant documentation, > forums, bug reports etc for each and every package? > > 2. Do I have the knowledge and skills to do a better job than these > distribution/package maintainers? > > 3. Am I prepared to research dependancies for a given package, then compile > each with the appropriate set of compiler flags? > > 4. How does Gentoo really help me in achieving any of the above? > (particularly #3)
While I do not disagree with this in principle please let's stick to the facts. The packages are supplied by gentoo packagers who do maintain the packages to the best of their ability. The average gentoo user does not have to concern themselves with tracking. -- Ken Foskey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
