Re: [Nolug] Gentoo?

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>It's great from a security standpoint as well. patches get into gentoo very
>very quickly because of it's source based nature. That also allows gentoo
>to be pretty bleeding-edge. A project releases new code, most of the time
> they can just rename the ebuild to match the new version. if you're syncing
> daily you'll be up to date right away.

That brings up an important question: how often do things break? I don't know
how many times I've been in the middle of a large compile (KDE for example)
on NetBSD and something breaks in the middle, for instance one little
dependency that has the wrong version or build date, or a bad makefile, and
the compile stops until I either A). waited a few days for some packager to
fix his stuff, or B). went and grabbed the binary and pkg_added it.

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Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
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