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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:08 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." |
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<phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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> Instead of custom patches (which most of people don't apply anyway I |
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> think) |
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Perhaps ok to drop, but you gotta admit that no other distro makes |
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this as easy to do as Gentoo, without causing problems (beyond |
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whatever your patches do). |
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> and custom CFLAGS (easy way to hose the system) |
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Yet probably 80% of our users use them, I'm guessing. They also |
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provide significant performance boosts, especially on x86 where half |
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of the other distros still build everything for vanilla i386. I think |
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that pulling this out really does remove something that makes Gentoo |
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distinctive. |
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> how about |
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> emphasizing more flexible dependencies? Say that because we build from |
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> source, we can enable or disable package's optional dependencies, and |
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> put the user in control. |
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Agreed that this is a big thing. |
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All three of those features really touch on the fact that Gentoo puts |
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the user in control, when they want to be in control, and yet Gentoo |
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takes care of all the other stuff on its own when the user doesn't |
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need this control. |
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That said, I don't think we need to have a paragraph worth of the pros |
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and cons of custom CFLAGs. I'd just talk about how Gentoo puts users |
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in control with the ability to apply patches, optimize CFLAGs, and |
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strip unnecessary dependencies. Go ahead and mention that binary |
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packages are available for large packages for users who have slower |
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systems. I'd drop all the stuff about the pros/cons of actually |
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taking advantage of any of those features - save that for some other |
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page for people who actually are going to start tweaking their |
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systems. |
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