[SlugLUG] Re: [Honors-members] about that installfest

[cerise at armory.com]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:58:04PM -0800, Peter Belew wrote:
> 
> Yes, that is true. Some people, of course, would like to just
> install the binaries and not wait for the builds. But I don't know
> the time ratio between the two approaches.

   If the time ratio is that big (it certainly is on my pentium-120), one could
simply use GRP, and emerge it normally while using the GRP'd version.
   Or, as I do with tuesday, simply compile on another system and xfer binaries
over.

>  I'm weak. Till I want to install something that isn't avaiable in
> binary, or would better be rebuilt since it isn't in the right package
> format, or would benefit for optomization, etc ...

   By definition, they all benefit from optimization.  Additionally, with a
little bit of effort, one can avoid a ton of dependencies which you get stuck
with in a binary-only distro.

   Out of curiousity, have you actually run Gentoo?  Or do you just assume
that it's too leet for you because I'm using it?  ; )
 
-Phil/CERisE