On 2010-06-16 11:39 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Yes, but Gentoo isn't supplying binaries. The amount of project > time/effort to get all those Debian binaries compiled and out the > door is gargantuan compared to the Gentoo source model.
Ah, forgot about that... its amazing how you get used to the freedom of a source based system. The biggest argument against source based installs is they take too long. On reasonably modern hardware it isn't much of an issue, and even on older hardware - I mean, really how often do you have to do the installation? Mine last for many years... > My point was that building binaries is one of the reasons it takes > Debian so long to get a new release out. AFAIK, Gentoo isn't shackled > with this issue. Correct, it isn't, and with USE flags, it makes custom compiling (and recompiling if needs change) with support for *precisely* what you need extremely easy even for people like me... ;) -- Best regards, Charles
