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[Simon Huggins]

Hi LUG,

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:36:15PM +0100, Geoffrey J. Teale wrote:
> Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li> writes:
> > No, really I thought he was taking the piss but nevermind.  I may well
> > end up learning something from it all so it'll all be good.

And I did :)

> Stephen genuinely likes Gentoo, his suggestion was a valid one.

I prefer reproducible effects that using the same binary packages not
conditionally compiled by USE flags gives me in terms of adminning but I
can see the appeal to general users of a distro that lets you pick and
choose (and even have some stuff using say alsa and some stuff not etc.)

I've even started using (home-built) .debs for my kernels now.  It's
nice when you know the hardware is the same or mostly the same and you
can just rollout one packages across many servers.

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