[Sussex] Brief introduction and Ubuntu question...

[John D.]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 15:18 +0100, Stephen Williams wrote:

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> I haven't chipped in with a pitch for Gentoo here as you said you
> "didn't want to have to do lots of recompiling". The one downside of
> Gentoo is the compile times for some packages - KDE  is the worst
> offender in this respect. 
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Ah ha! (he said knowingly).

Which means I can comment on this, and on the thread about acronyms with
the response of "GRP" (or gentoo reference platform, as they say in
english!).

Oh, and these "GRP", or pre-compiled binaries, don't only seem to be on
the second of the install discs. I understand that you can get some of
them directly from the portage tree as well - though as I haven't worked
out how to see "exactly" what's available, erm, I think I'll just crawl
back into my box (work! :-( )

regards

Another Gentoouser !