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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Anyway, part of the point of using a distribution is that it spares you |
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> from having to know what's best for you. |
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That's a little harsh, Ciaran. I did the linux from scratch thing. Had |
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a lot of fun with it. Enjoyed being down in the bowels of the linux |
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system and the total control over what was installed. I knew what was |
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best for me, I knew what my requirements were and built the box to |
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satisfy those requirements. |
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Then after a few weeks of tracking freshmeat daily to see what updates I |
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needed to download and apply manually, I stumbled upon gentoo and have |
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been a happy gentoo'er since. I never lost sight of what was best for |
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me, what my requirements were. I merely had to alter my processes to |
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incorporate the automated nature that gentoo offers (what a relief that |
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was ;-) |
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Your statement is probably true for all of the binary distribution |
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folks. But I doubt that you'll get many from this crowd that would say |
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that we want or expect the gentoo team to "know what's best for [us]." |
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