[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Koyote]

"Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> writes:

> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> 
> > It seems to be okay.  People like it for a couple reasons:  1) It compiles
> > everything specifically for your system, not the lowest common denominator.
> 
> Oh.  That's right.  There's no typical Linux equivalent of "make world".
> I'm getting spoiled by BSD.  A Linux distribution with things like "make
> world" and a ports tree would go a long way towards making it a more
> useful environment, IMO.
> 
> If Gentoo has stuff like this, the only real missing component would be
> an installer--even a shellscript installer like the BSDs and Slackware
> have.


that *is* sort of the whole point with gentoo. I'd dare say you haven't
actually done much of the preliminary reading if you haven't gotten to
the part of the docco that explains portage.


:)