31 Jan
2004
31 Jan
'04
9:14 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 09:09:52PM +0900, rossen apostolov wrote:
jaap wrote:
Fair enough.. each to their own.
I use debian and then install self-compiled source packages for most of
the audio stuff, since it is more cutting edge than the debs. I could
make them into debs myself but can not really be bothered.. Haven't had
any dependency tracking problems so far... Gentoo sounds a bit more fiddly
to me but I am sure it is good once you get used to it.
James
Le Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:23:42PM +0000, James
Stone a ?crit...
James:
Gentoo's ebuilds are, like the ports in FreeBSD ,
a very powerful way to keep your system updated.
They automatically download, compile and install
not only the program you want but the dependencies as well.
They let you have all the programs compiled with
options optimized for your specific machine,
and record everything they do in a database.
You can (often) easily write ebuilds yourself, especially for
programs using autoconf etc.
The ebuild system is the main reason I shifted to Gentoo,
and highly recommend it.
I have no idea about Gentoo and ebuilds. What is
wrong with downloading
the source and compiling it yourself?
James
It's more work.
And if the ebuild is ok,it will be easier for a lot of people.
Maybe you have to try gentoo to understand..:)
Jaap