[nylug-talk] I'm a Gentoo convert.

[Ruben Safir]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:36:01AM -0500, marco wrote:
> Ezra Taylor wrote:
> > Why the hell am I install xorg on a server.  This shit has been going
> > for thirty minutes already.  Thankfully I'm doing this on Saturday.
> >
> >   
> Add -X to the USE flags in /etc/make.conf
> 
> Perhaps you asked to emerge imagemagick called in by a php-graphics 
> package or something.  If you don't tweak the USE flags you are missing 
> out on why to use gentoo in the first place.
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2
> 
> No it ain't all funroll-loops ...
> 

This is similar to what I was saying about Apache and the Debian packaging
in a prior thread.  In the case of Apache specifically, it is designed to
be built and distrubted and customized from source.  This doesn't preclude
its use of something being distributed as binaries, but clear in the design 
is the intention to give the adminstrator and developer a full access through
compilation.


Frielech em - Purim

Happy Holiday all

Ruben



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