[buug] Gentoo, Bluecurve and Linux too!

johnd john at jjdev.com
Fri Oct 18 10:19:17 PDT 2002


On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:04:30AM -0700, Aaron T Porter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:42:47AM -0500, Brian Sobolak wrote:
>  
> > 1.  Has anyone taken Gentoo Linux for a spin?  I know a lot of people on
> > this list are big Debian fans, but Gentoo looks appealing as well.
> 
> 	Gentoo probably speaks to your FreeBSD roots then. It definately
> looks like a nice setup, though I guess I just don't see the point in
> compiling everything locally if you're not actually doing it by hand.
> _______________________________________________


The point is the same...why do you compile by hand?

I don't do it for fun, I do it to take advantage of optimizations for my
architecture.

I would say:

I don't see the point in compiling by hand if you can have a package do
it for you.



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