On 21 fév, 13:57, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Feb, 13:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <OT digression="gentoo advocacy"> > > re DLing source > > > As a "solution" to the problem of wanting a program on my computer, it > > sucks. > > It doesn't suck if you're just installing one program, but if there > are a lot of dependencies it can quickly suck, yes. Even with systems > that comprehensively manage dependencies like Gentoo's Portage (and > unlike language-specific solutions such as easy_install and the CPAN > tools) the convenience can become quickly overwhelmed by practical > concerns such as whether your computer has enough CPU time available > to compile all the updates coming in. >
Hmm... I'm actually an happy gentoo user, and my computer is now something like five years old. So yes, sure, I do not recompile OpenOffice everyday, but with ccache installed, keeping the sytem up to date is definitively not a problem. </OT> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
