D2 Library Porters

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Wed Jul 4 04:18:26 PDT 2012


On 4 July 2012 11:52, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> On 2012-07-04 02:34, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 00:42:22 Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>
>>> Just so long as it isn't Gentoo. :o)
>>>
>>> Afterall, out of all of the linux distros out there, I would say that
>>> gentoo takes the least time to mess around... </sarcasm>
>>
>>
>> LOL. I did use Gentoo for a while, but I got sick of things breaking on
>> updates. Arch provides most of the benefits that Gentoo does but defaults
>> to
>> binary packages while letting you build them from source if you want to
>> rather
>> than making _everything_ be built from source. And surprisingly, Arch
>> seems to
>> do a better job of providing bleeding edge packages quickly than Gentoo
>> does
>> (at least for the packages that I care about).
>>
>> But Linux distros are one of those things that you can argue about
>> endlessly.
>> To each their own I guess.
>
>
> I agree. I tried LFS and then added portage, which basically made it into
> Gentoo. I general I like the idea about Gentoo but it just takes too much
> time. These days I'm staying away from Gentoo and using Ubuntu when I'm
> using Linux. But we all know that the best Unix-like system is Mac OS X :)
>

Another platform that we need to start testing extensively with GDC. :-)

Anyone willing to jump onboard?

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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