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On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:58:23AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 01:48:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > So all in all, I agree. Using Gentoo is nowadays not so much a matter |
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> > of performance optimization but of better control of how to build the |
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> > packages and the rolling release nature (I'm tired of major updates |
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> > every 6 months in the majority of binary distros.) I also like the USE |
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> > flags which let me chose how to build something and get rid of |
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> > dependencies I don't need. Administrative features like dispatch-conf |
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> > are also very useful. |
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> This is the main benefit of Gentoo for me. I have to use SuSE or RHEL at work |
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> for the database machines - Sybase will not support any other other distro - |
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> and the 1G+ base install from those distros drive me nuts. Contrast that with |
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> the DNS caches which run FreeBSD, the difference is about a factor of 5 if |
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> not more. |
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> I also get sick and tired of installing postfix on a database machine purely |
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> to send nagios alerts, and watching the distro "helpfully" want to pull in |
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> PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP, SASL, Courier and some fancy MTA-switcher thingy. |
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> All because the maintainer enables those features and now I gotta have them. |
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> No thanks. Rather give me USE so I say what goes on the box. |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Often on gentoo related IRC chanels comes someone who asks why his |
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firefox-bin (or openoffice-bin or *-bin) runs faster than his |
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built-from-source firefox. |
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Usually chan's gurus answer that upstream packagers use all the possible |
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compiler optimizations (CFLAGS LDFLAGS etc.) for the given package, |
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while the average gentoo users keeps a set of "system wide very safe |
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optimizations" that are good for most packages, but not the best for |
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every particolar package. |
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Is that statement correct? |
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