13 Dec
2010
13 Dec
'10
6:01 p.m.
lhecking@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Anyone who advocates maintaining from source has simply never administered more than a handful of machines at a time.
Great way to learn, but impractical for hundreds to thousands of machines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_%28software%29#Binary_Packages http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc...
Most useful if the machines in question are identical or near identical.
And all on the same side of the firewall(s). On the other hand, how can they be against "OSS", when they've ok'd gentoo. I mean, have they gone through *all* the code? <g>
mark