Hurrah Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released

Hurrah Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released

Posted Aug 31, 2006 12:36 UTC (Thu) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: Hurrah Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released by stuart
Parent article: Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released

I just wanted to add to the comments you've already got on the subject:
In short, adding support for, say Kerberos, is done by setting a flag and
rebuilding all packages that support it where a project such as Debian
has to offer the same package in a kerberized variant. Supporting many
variants on a packages quickly becomes coplex for binary based distro,
while with a source based one you can choose an arbitrary combination.

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