[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-02-04, Jes?s Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es> wrote:
> El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 8:39, Alan McKinnon escribi?:
>> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:27:31 Christopher Walters wrote:
>>
>> I personally don't view Gentoo as a "distro" in the traditional sense. To
>> me, it's a build system, an app - portage or paludis - and the devs that
>> make cool input files for that app. Building a distro from scratch for
>> embedded devices is a painful process if you don't have an automated build
>> system. It's not quite a trivial exercise, but portage does make it a
>> whole lot easier.
>
> That's mostly what I call a "metadistro". A set of tools and
> instructions to build a proper distro that suits you, and maintain
> it.

Except that what you build and maintain isn't a "distro", it's
a single machine.

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