On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Antoni Grzymala <ant...@chopin.edu.pl> wrote: > Gentoo has a good balance in not being overengineered like Debian > (dpkg-reconfigure and all that hell)
bullshit, just look at emerge look at it > and having a decent quality > package tree (unlike arch). what package tree? where do I download binary gentoo packages? oh, that's right, I can't, because it's yet another thing the gentoo kids couldn't figure out, despite decades of examples. > It's also easy to compile software > out-of-the-tree, as there are header files for everything in the > system. that's not a benefit of gentoo, it's something that should be standard. also, it's not a conscious design decision. it's an effect of the braindead software distribution mechanism. > It's okay. Not great, neither a disaster (unless you trust the > lack of argumentation of main Gentoo haters here). no, it is in fact a retarded disaster. source-only software distribution is completely stupid and wrong. the stupid package .tbz2 crap gentoo does have is too fragile and worthless to be even worth mentioning. if you want to see how this can be done correctly, look at freebsd or openbsd, where software can be built -or- installed from packages. > And yeah, daemons are *not* started automatically after package > installation. holy crap this totally changed my mind hold on while I recompile my entire everything so I can get this killer feature
