Has Linux gone binary?
Duane Attaway
dattaway at attaway.net
Mon Oct 21 09:23:37 CDT 2002
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Bates wrote:
> I assume you all notice a trend that has begun...
>
> people are asking about where to get an rpm.. rather than a source.. and
> they are asking about certain distributions... has the idea of compiling
> your own optimized binary gone down the proverbial toliet? Let alone
> figuring out what libraries are needed? Or do users just not realize
> that Linux is Linux?
Quite the opposite. I wouldn't worry about it.
Gentoo lists 4731 source tarballs directly from the original authors in
their distribution tree at my last count (8.4GBytes!) A single command
line can compile all or part of those into your system, depending on what
you want. I compile everything and never have to worry about finding
libraries or needing to find files.
I hear debian also manages dependancies automatically.
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