| Pat Regan on 18 Jul 2005 23:21:16 -0000 |
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Luke Renn wrote: >> If a vulnerability is released with a patch you don't need to be running >> a source based distribution to recompile a single package. > > No, but most people wait for the new binary package wouldn't you > agree? And when you do, it can be a pain in the butt. > I almost always wait for a binary. Thankfully Debian is usually quite quick with security fixes :). > I would say it doesn't live up to the hype. However, I'm glad my > binaries won't run on a 386, and are optimized for my processor, even > if I don't always notice the difference w/ high visibility apps like > Firefox. If you're running servers you usually want to compile a few > things from source anyway, apache, php, etc, just so you don't get a > bunch of crap you don't want...so might as well optimize while you're > doing it. > You are absolutely correct that there are usually a handful of packages that you may want to build from source. Most of the time it is quite simple to build a Debian package out of a tarball, so I don't mind doing it a handful of times. > emerge emacs-cvs > > Another nice thing...the most popular packages already have cvs > ebuilds. Which means, you can track a project's cvs builds, but still > have it managed by your package manager. > My Emacs CVS build is managed by my package manager. deb-make is a piece of cake to use. > Debian is so far behind, I wouldn't consider using it, but thats just > me. > I've been keeping my home workstation mostly up to date with Debian Unstable for quite a few years now. Most of the times things have been as up to date as I needed them, until recently. When Sarge was being frozen, Unstable was falling way behind. I don't think that will be much of a problem until the next freeze though. > All and all, I wouldn't recommend Gentoo to anyone who needs > convincing. It's either something that you immediately want, or its > not going to be for you. One great way to get BSD snobs (like myself) > back to linux, it to show them gentoo. Essentially, all BSD distro's > are like Gentoo, Gentoo just took what BSD started and made it 10x better. > Well, I worry that I have just gotten too comfortable with doing things the Debian way. I just want to make sure I am really not missing out on something that would revolutionize the way I do things :). Pat Attachment:
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