[ltp] Gentoo

[Charles E Taylor IV]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 19:23:21 +0200
Buchan Milne <bgmilne@cae.co.za> wrote:

> Gentoo has two advantages over Redhat (we're talking defaults):
> 
> 1)Optimisation
> 2)Package management
> 
> Mandrake has about the same optimisations that you would be willing to
> use on a Gentoo box (the rest make very little difference), and has
> urpmi for managing packages (no reason to compile dependencies when
> urpmi will just install them for you instead ...).

For that matter, so does Red Hat.  If you want more optimization, rpmbuild
--rebuild is your friend.

Red Hat users can also use apt, of course.  See http://freshrpms.net/

> Of course, if you just want to be l337, and be happy that you *must* be
> more efficient since you spent a solid week compiling packages, then
> there is no choice, you have to run a source-based distro.

Those source-based distros are for those with fast machines and big hard
disks. We laptop users score low on both scales. :)

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