On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 21:10 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 11:24 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > > I resent that. Time may be something that you need a lot of in the > > beginning but when it's all set up, it's all a breeze. > > I truly apologize. > That was not appropriate and came off wrong - I went through LFS several > times for the same reason, to learn. No Worries. Didn't to come off with guns blazing :-) And I have to admit, going from RH/FC to Gentoo was a pretty humbling experience. > > The point about servers is that it requires that you have a compiler on > the server, and rebuilding something like glibc due to a security bug > can take time, whereas a binary distribution is rather fast, just an > update - and doesn't take system resources to build. This is most understandable. Which is why we have build hosts/farm and binary packages pushed out via cron etc. emerge -k world -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:06:01 up 1 day, 1:40, 8 users, load average: 0.86, 0.82, 0.64
