End of Saga WHY I WANT TO STOP USING FEDORA!!!
Jonathan Underwood
jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 14:33:02 UTC 2009
2009/2/10 Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org>:
> Oh? And how come I can install the same set of software in Gentoo and
> not need an extra 50+MB of dependencies? I wish I had an example at the
> moment, but I don't. However, I'm sure one will pop up sooner or later.
>
Because gentoo builds from source on your local machine, building in
support for componenets as specified by your USE flags, whereas Fedora
is a binary distribution, and dependencies are generated during the
building of those binaries.
Now, why don't my apples taste like oranges?
Jonathan.
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