4 Jun
2009
4 Jun
'09
1:26 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:56 PM, carmen <_(a)whats-your.name> wrote:
On Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 12:21:52PM +1000, Erik de
Castro Lopo wrote:
I cannot imagine where this thread is really going. It should be fun to read...
I guess folks who don't run Gentoo generally have such a negative
view, but I really like it for this audio application. +1 for the
pro-audio overlay. +1 for slotting. +1 for being able to create your
own overalys. I built this machine 5-6 years ago and have never had to
do an upgrade. Just keeps running with a few commands.
It's hard for me to imagine using a distro anymore that doesn't fully
consider the user building ALL code from scratch, like Gentoo. Sure I
often wish I didn't have to build things, but I won't use a distro
that doesn't support me to do it from scratch on all programs. It
shouldn't be considered out of the ordinary.
- Mark
jrogers wrote:
are you joking? its a hodge podge of perl scripts and baroque practices
if you want a 'canonical', 'trusted' binary of fairly recent vintage of a
somewhat popular app, im sure you can't go wrong
but for stuff like audio where 98% of the stuff you want to instal resides in Git/Hg,
ive had much greater availability and ease with two solutions:
proaudio overlay (for gentoo) and Paludis (for handling of hg/git/vcs depchain updating)
and the AUR / archaudio.org project for Arch.. - Manual install (like arch Linux) is fine and
probably preferred. (manual is
fine, but complete default instructions would be needed)
Regardless of what may or may not be wrong with Ubuntu Studio,
I think you should still choose to use a system with debian
packaging.
Yes, it has its faults, but no other packaging system comes near
it for ease of distribution, security, reliability, upgrade-ability
and so on.