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On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:09:38PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> > Another plus point is the almost complete devel tools provided out of the |
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> > box: the gcc suite. Now if I happen across an open source project that |
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> > hasn't made it yet to the portage tree, I can just download and compile it |
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> > myself. |
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> This. Very much this. My dive into Gentoo came as I was fed up with |
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> Debian and Ubuntu having buggy and/or outdated versions of multimedia |
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> encoding packages while trying to configure a box specced for live |
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> transcoding of h.264 to something my PS3 would like. |
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Though Gentoo was my first distro to begin with, the devel stuff in |
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Debian/Ubuntu is also a big nuisance for me, because you have to “spam” the |
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equivalent of your world file with numerous dev packages or libs if you want to |
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install some application from source (like I once tried with Amarok in Debian |
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Squeeze). |
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On the other hand one could of course argue that Gentoo is wasting a lot of |
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space because it is always installing all dev files, like /usr/include, |
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/lib/**/*.a and stuff. But that’s something else. :) |
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