Gentoo is ahead of the curve

Gentoo is ahead of the curve

Posted Mar 27, 2003 8:00 UTC (Thu) by DiegoCG (subscriber, #9198)
In reply to: Gentoo is ahead of the curve by alspnost
Parent article: A quick look at Gentoo Linux

That's what i don't like of gentoo. Compilation is *required*.

Debian for example compiles everything for i386. That REALLY SUCKS
in things like libc, X, multimedia apps...

But the good of debian is it doesn't require you to recompile.
There're tools that allow you to recompile a package with
the optimizations you want easily (see apt-build).

That's what gentoo needs. But they can't provide binary packages for
everything given that their dependencies are dynamic.

Dynamic dependencies *sounds* good, but they don't really have a lot
of sense to me. Static dependencies that install you libraries that
you're not going to use seems good to me. What if your system changes?
If you've gentoo and you change a USE flag; you'd to recompile a
lot of packages that are affected by that USE flag.

Precompiled binary packages are COOL. That's something that
gentoo must understand if they want to extend their distro.

But sure, it's much better to have everything compiled for k7
that for i686. X must fly on those systems.

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