On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Martoni wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:21:22 -0500, Nicholas Pappas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all. > > > > I'm having a crisis of conscious at the moment. I've been using > > Gentoo > > for a while and I really like it, but the simple truth is I don't need > > the granularity that compiling the source for each update provides. > > That, and I don't fool myself into pretending I know enough to tune my > > USE (and per package USE) variable to make the source version any better > > then your average prebuilt P4 package. > > I am sorry - but these threads almost get me into flame war mode. What > you are saying is "I like Gentoo - but I don't like Gentoo". It makes > no sense what so ever. One of the basic points with using Gentoo, > IMHO, is that it *is* a source based distro. You are supposed to be > able to tweak the packages. Binary packages create more problems than > they solve, again IMHO, in that you will soon get into dependency > hell. > > I you want binary packages of everything, then go to RH, Mandrake or > something like that.
I agree completively. What is with these guys who /choose/ to use Gentoo - one of the *few* source based distros instead of one of the *many* binary distros. And then they start whining here about the lack of binaries... that's just senseless, twisted logic. -- T.G. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
