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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:53:33 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti flash device?
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of course, the real reason to use gentoo is so you can leave stuff
like ldap off your system without going through rpm dependency
hell.

if you're using shared libraries, i don't think there is any way around
dependency hell short of
a) accepting whatever a distribution gives you lock, stock and barrel
(and hoping that they fix bugs in a timly fashion)

b) or compiling updates yourself.  fortunately gentoo makes it easy to
find what to compile.

there's no performance benefit to compiling things yourself.  but i have
gotten linux 2.6 with X11 working on a thinkpad 570.  all the stock
binary distros of X11 include instructions that the pII on that machine
doesn't recognize. (admittedly, it was a week moment.)

the only payoff is, i appreciate the work russ and the guys at the labs d=
id
to make plan 9 so easy to maintain so much more.

=E2=98=BA

- erik