[Hudlug] A gentoo question

[Tim Bray]

Mark Anderson wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I've been having a lot of problems recently with debian sid due to the 
> change of default compiler from 2.95 to 3.2. I'm having to be careful to 
> avoid dependency hell, and some of my KDE 3.1 packages are crashing in 
> new and interesting ways.

The point of Debian Sid is that it is broken.  It is a bit messed up 
because they have put loads of new things in.

You could just run Sarge instead.  Its only 2 days behind if it isn't 
broken.  You don't need to be that up to date do you?


> Would Gentoo get me out of all this by letting me compile everything 
> myself?

You can compile everything yourself on debian.  But then you just get 
into dependency hell with the build-depends.

Also, I've been told recently that the gcc optimisations for the 
different x86 processor types are not always useful.



Tim