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Wow, some misinformation never dies.Wow, some misinformation never dies.Posted Aug 31, 2006 3:57 UTC (Thu) by sholdowa (guest, #34811)In reply to: Wow, some misinformation never dies. by corey_s Parent article: Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released
To quote "It's not about compiler optimization, it's about being able to choose the optimal feature set for your needs."
Now, reread *your* post in the light of that statement, which was the one that *I* was responding to. In which way does gentoo's emerge system differ to yum or apt when choosing feature sets?
See my point now?
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Wow, some misinformation never dies. Posted Aug 31, 2006 7:01 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] Yes, but it's not a very good one. See, you're missing that many of these packages (especially complex ones like PHP or Apache) have compile-time options that determine what features are built in. If you only use precompiled packages, you can't choose those. This should be readily apparent.
Wow, some misinformation never dies. Posted Aug 31, 2006 21:13 UTC (Thu) by sholdowa (guest, #34811) [Link] Err, no you're pretty much completely wrong there. I see what you're saying, and build my internet facing servers from source for exactly that reason.
My point was that the OP made a sweeping statement that IMHO was almost totally untrue. A package management system is a package management system, is a package management system and the only thing that really makes gentoo's different is the ability/expectation to build from scratch. They're all as good as the data contained within them, and because that's put there by people, they all make mistakes at some time or other.
To address your point, debian allows me to optionally install the following modules for apache 2.0. I could have just as easily used php for an example.
libapache2-mod-annodex - Provides server-side support for Annodex media
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