Rumor has it that Justin The Cynical may have mentioned these words: >*snip* >Now, to be fair... >(devils advocate mode on)
[[ Bigger snippage ]] >Packages as a whole bug me to no end. Gentoo isn't any better. I've learned to live with 'em if necessary... not like 'em, but live with 'em... ;-) >Building from source isn't going to give much of a performance boost, You've obviously never owned a Crusoe processor-based computer, have you? ;-) Lemme tell ya, compiling for the architecture -- especially when it's a *wonky* architecture -- can give you some serious performance gains.[1] My 933Mhz Crusoe laptop benchmarked equivalent to about a 650-700MHz x86 processor - except in LFS, where it benchmarked about 1.3GHz! Anywho, that was my only point (well, other than the one on top of my head! ;-) Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger [1] Of course, it depends on the application, YMMV, IMHO, etc. -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | Anarchy doesn't scale well. -- Me [EMAIL PROTECTED] | SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
