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On 01/11/2012 06:50, Jamie Learmonth wrote: |
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> Who's with me? |
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Not me. |
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If you're just looking for another binary distribution, CentOS is there. |
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Or Sabayon. Or Ubuntu. Pick your poison. |
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But I use and _develop_ Gentoo because I _want_, and sometimes just |
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_need_ source based! Sometiems it's because I'm doing embedded work and |
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I have to shave even those 4KiB, most of the time is because I want the |
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flexibility. |
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And unbundling almost never has "negligible advantages" as it's not the |
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_size_ or performance that we care about in those situation but security |
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and reliability. |
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Would you rather have to track down Internal Compiler Errors in two |
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dozens packages, or on one, even if it takes slightly longer when it |
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breaks compatibility? (And almost never it takes _that_ long anyway.) I |
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would definitely prefer the one. |
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Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes |
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