22 Feb
2007
22 Feb
'07
7:58 a.m.
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 13:47 +0000, Peter Farrell wrote:
Fine. Fair point regarding the generality of simplicity and systems management for newer users.
I'll leave it at that.
Well ... not trying to be a butt head ... BUT
when you build your distro ... you can tell people that installing items from source is a good idea.
Since this is our distro ... we will tell people that is "Absolutely Evil" and suggest to people who want to do it that they should shift to Gentoo if they like building stuff :D
OK ... maybe not, and there might be a reason to build your own stuff ... BUT, it mostly causes problems and should not be done unless there is not another alternative. At least that is what the official word around here is.
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