Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 22:34, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:06:49PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > Supporting our users who want to compile optimised binaries from our
> > source packages has NOTHING TO DO WITH OFFICAL MIRROR SIZE.
>
> debian users can do that. so they have all the benefits of debian and
> the "optimisation" ability of gentoo.
>
> look at the pentium-builder and apt-build packages for details.
>
> they had this ability (to download debianised source and build optimised
> binaries) even before tools like these existed.
>
> IMO, the fact that very few of our users do this is evidence that it's
> really not a high priority for them.
Or maybe a clue that don't their existence.
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