> Ryan stated the exact reason why I gave up on Gentoo. I didn't feel like > compiling stuff for 50 million hours! :)
Compiling things from scratch is annoying, especially for the
installation. It does take a long time if you have a slower box. I have
noticed, however, that once my system is installed it's not too big of a
deal. I just do any updates right before I go to bed. Plus, most
packages compile pretty quickly; the only ones that don't are KDE,
Gnome, and Mozilla.
I'll agree that the benchmarks on Gentoo aren't as good as you might
think. I have noticed though that conflicting packages aren't as a big
of a problem on Gentoo. When you make an RPM you have to tell it what
the dependencies are, and they usually are package level based.
Application X depends on version X of glibc, on version X of a driver,
etc. When you compile a program through make (through autoconf) it will
find out exactly what is on your system and builds the package around
it. I've noticed much less headache with portage than RPM and other
packaging systems.
But, once again, it all comes down to personal preference. And if you
think that "every distro sucks", you have the right to make your own,
thanks to the good ol' GPL. :-)
-Evan
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