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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:13:33PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Well, the FreeBSD ports collection basically gives you the means to > rebuild the programs you want to *if* you want to, and then it gives the > FreeBSD release engineers the means to fill the installation CD's with > lots of - and here's a novel idea, at least to some aforementioned Linux > distro maintainers, it would seem - *binary packages* built from those > self-same ports :) This is the thing the Gentoo users seem to miss. All binary Linux distributions also offer source packages! Some make it easier to use them than others, but you can easily set up Debian to download, config, compile and install completely from source packages just like you would binaries. And then you get your precious 686 optimized binaries. -- Michael G Schwern schwern@xxxxx.xxx http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ We have cornered the market on senselessness and have profited.There's stuff above here
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