[Cumbria] The guy has a point...

[Chris Plant]

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 19:35, Schwuk wrote:
> Chris Plant wrote:
> > Well, did you enjoy waiting for it to compile, its a pointless exercise
> > recompiling everything, time would be better spent installing redhat,
> > and then compiling important libs.
> 
> Actually, with the new GRP cd's you get XFree86, Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice 
> and Mozilla pre-compiled for your platform (I've got images for i686, 
> Athlon and Pentium III), which remove most of the compiling - the only 
> things you really need to compile to get going are your kernel, logger 
> and cron. I installed it on my laptop in under two hours. My only real 
> complaint about it is the fact that the kernel sources and a Portage 
> snapshot are not included on the CD - you still have to download those...
Heh.
> 
> Gentoo is not about ease of install - it's about an optimised system 
> that runs what _you_ want, not the creators. I did a minimal install of 
> RedHat the other day - even with all options turned off it's still > 450MB.
You don't get an optimised system, any more than you would installing
debian and then recompiling important stuff.
> 
> And as for how the time is better spent, that is purely objective - 
> you'd probably think I was wasting my time today for compiling ALSA 
> today when my soundcard already worked under OSS. I'm doing it for the 
> experience, not to get a working system - that's what RedHat is for...
I'm pointing out that gentoo *is* purely a geek idea, nobody sane wants
to compile an install.

Chris