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--tAmVnWIZ6lqEAvSf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On (12/21 10:33), Michael G Schwern wrote: > I hate Gentoo. >=20 > Its the "micro-optimizations uber alles" mentality of system configuratio= n. =20 > What's worth more: running 4% faster or everything actually working witho= ut=20 > having to tweak a million compilation settings?=20 this is a bit like saying that i hate debian because of the crazy licensing fucks. yeah, they're a part of the community. yeah, they're a VOCAL part of the community. but we hates them. yes we do. i've been running gentoo for a while now (ex-slackware and ex-debian junkie). i have a 5 line make.conf that is mostly my preferences for which mirrors to use. and i have about 5 things in package.use (which is the compilation flag override file). and it just works. debian stopped being an option for me when i realised that i needed to recompile firefox to burn gtk2 out of it. through a whole batallion of yaks and it was looking like i was going to have recompile gnome and a bunch of other shit. so i bailed and went to a source based distro that let me do what i wanted to do easily. also, on a seperate debian hate, most package maintainers need to have their legs broken. after zsh and then perl and then a few other apps i cant live without broke in different ways on a daily basis in testing, it was time to either change distros or buy a gun and go on a rampage. -- sungo http://eekeek.org "Try everything once except incest and folk dancing." --Sir Thomas Beecham --tAmVnWIZ6lqEAvSf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFByFfd5xrCYZCVAioRAsinAJwLv862ZUQ0h0CFKRL+0u0PJsY2ggCeKPxN U6cKHkv8fppXbxF40UsaJ0A= =6IrO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tAmVnWIZ6lqEAvSf--There's stuff above here
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