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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:33:46 -0500 Dave Nebinger <dnebinger@××××.com> |
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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 |
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| say that we want or expect the gentoo team to "know what's best for |
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| [us]." |
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What, you think that everyone here knows exactly which version of gcc, |
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with which patches and which corresponding binutils to use? You think |
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that everyone here knows exactly which versions of db they do and do |
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not need installed? You think that everyone here knows which kernel |
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headers they should be using and in what way they should be patched? |
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Most of our users don't have a clue about those questions. Heck, most |
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of our devs don't either. Figuring all that stuff out correctly is a |
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hell of a lot of work. One of the major reasons for using Gentoo over |
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LFS is that someone else has done said work for you. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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