Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:50:32PM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote:
> /me now points to Gentoo's About page prologue:
> <http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml>
>
> > He discovered lots of up-to-date packages that could be auto-built
> > using the optimizations settings and build-time functionality that
> > he wanted, rather than what some distro creator thought would be
> > best for him. All of the sudden, Larry the Cow was in control. And
> > he liked it.
>
> Silly, perhaps, but it still conveys the message that the
> Gentoo user is in control. Do the cutting edge enthusiasts in Debian
> have the same amount of control? Have we become so complacent at
> believing that since we have the some of the strictest policies and
> heaviest bug resolution/testing procedures around that we're the best
> distribution around that we no longer need to seek improvements?
Maybe we should advertise:
apt-get source foobar
apt-get build-dep foobar
cd foobar-x.y.z
<tweak foobar-x.y.z directory as wished>
debuild binary
For it's not worth recompiling most packages, only the ones where such
a speed saving is actually important.
Julian
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