lhecking at 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_chap4 > > 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