Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

Hi,

I know that. Perfectly. It so happens that the whole point of using
Gentoo is to build your own binaries. If you're goind the pre-built
packages way, why not do it with someone who has more experience :)

This is why I said the only argument one could throw at me is one which
is *against* using Gentoo in spite of Debian/Fedora/whatever... :)

Gentoo is very nice, IMHO, but for me it is a time waster, and if you're
going the pre-built binaries way... well, why should I move?

But your mileage may vary :)

BTW, when I said: "no distro-war (...)" I meant it. That Debian jab
isn't going to drag me into a distro-war :)

Rui

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:58:40AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> I think he answered your question Rui - there is no reason gentoo will
> kill the flash any sooner than debian - unless its having up to date
> software :)
> 
> There are a lot of misconceptions about gentoo, please research it
> before making rash statements (like I did about up to date software :)
> 
> I find that opkg is so PRIMATIVE and restrictive compared to portage
> thats its really frustrating.  And from the outside looking in, debian
> isnt a whole lot better <flame suit to ON>.
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 14:51 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:00:36PM +0100, Al Johnson wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > > > I hope you guys don't mind killing your phone or uSD's memory sooner
> > > > than everyone else :)
> > > 
> > > Why? Are you making some unwarranted assumptions about using Gentoo on 
> > > embedded systems? 
> > 
> > No unwarranted assumption, the only argument you could throw back at me is
> > an argument against using Gentoo instead of any .deb or .rpm based
> > distribution ;)
> > 
> > Please, no distro-war, you're free to kill your flash devices sooner ;)
> > 
> > Rui
> > 
> -- 
> William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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