Re: XMMS

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From: Anton Berezin
Subject: Re: XMMS
Date: 15:40 on 21 Dec 2004
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:33:00AM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:03:14AM -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
> > It's sad when Linux and its apps can't even get something as simple as 
> > audio right.  I mean, this shit has been done for a decade.  Really.
> 
> I hate Gentoo.
> 
> Its the "micro-optimizations uber alles" mentality of system configuration.  
> What's worth more: running 4% faster or everything actually working without 
> having to tweak a million compilation settings?  There's a reason to use 
> pre-configured and tested packages such as Debian provides: people have 
> figured this shit out for you.
> 
> This shit has been done for a decade and Gentoo decides to throw it all out
> so users can spend days reconfiguring and recompiling their software in a
> desperate attempt to wring just a bit more speed out of their hardware when
> they could be spending that time whoring on the street to scrape together
> the $200 to buy a faster CPU.

Yeah.  Gentoo's portage tried to make a better FreeBSD ports
collection, missing the whole point of the latter entirely.
There's stuff above here

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