[Cumbria] The guy has a point...

[Chris Plant]

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 21:10, Schwuk wrote:
> Chris Plant wrote:
> > You don't get an optimised system, any more than you would installing
> > debian and then recompiling important stuff.
> 
> i.e. all of it?
No, what benefit do you get from optimising gnu textutils ?  Recompiling
X, glibc, gtk and other welk used libs is good, but all of a distro?
> 
> > I'm pointing out that gentoo *is* purely a geek idea, nobody sane wants
> > to compile an install.
> 
> 1) It probably is a 'geek' thing. I don't think I ever said it wasn't...
> 2) There must be an awful lot of insane people out there judging by it's 
> popularity...

Yep, sure are.

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Chris Plant <chris@monkeyircd.org>
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