[huskerlug] Re: Gentoo Question on package development/portage.
- From: "Joseph R. Smith" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 07:37:29 -0600
speaking as a gentoo user:
Speed increases are definitely present when compiling with the -o3
optimizations. using USE flags to specify what components to add and remove
from package defaults gives it some edge too.
You don't have to compile packages from scratch, using the -k command will
install binaries.
I love apt-get, but the level of control emerge and friends gives you is
unbeatable-- and honestly, very straightforward.
(I have gentoo installed on a sony vaio notebook (fs660) with all the hardware
working, minimal effort).
I'm a gentoo convert previously running SuSE as my main distro. I'm never
going back to anything RPM based.
On Friday 02 February 2007 00:19, Charles Leslie wrote:
> > I usually don't run into any problems with packages getting hosed, and
> > I've been running Gentoo for almost three years now. Although, I do
> > enjoy the "struggle" to update some packages. Is that masochistic?
> > Probably... but it is my entertainment. What is nice though is when my
> > brother is having trouble compiling a package of some kind (he likes
> > Debian based distros) and I have already run into the problem and found
> > the answer on gentoo's forums. But I defiantly wouldn't recommend this
> > for everyone (not even to my brother).
>
> Gentoo users sometimes remind me of ultralight backpackers who cut the
> edges off their maps and the end off their toothbrush to save weight.
> Unnecessary? maybe. But I guess there is something to be said about
> knowing that you went to that level.
>
> I know a crazy Linux hermit that still runs a Redhat 4.2 box, or
> that's what it originally was. It's not anymore, he's updated nearly
> ever component from source, even recompiling multiple new versions of
> the GNU compiler and core system libraries. He installs everything
> from source, and the amount he has learned by doing it is hard to
> dispute. But, for me, sometimes reading man pages and code, for days
> on end, isn't worth it when you can just do... apt-get, and get on
> with your valuable life. :)
>
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