Re: From the Gentoo front, (was Re: [linux-audio-user] Demudi and alsa)

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Subject: Re: From the Gentoo front, (was Re: [linux-audio-user] Demudi and alsa)
From: Vincent Touquet (vincent.touquet_AT_pandora.be)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 01:57:44 EEST


On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:51:54PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>I never tried Gentoo, but you can build Debian packages from scratch
>as well with "apt-get build somepackage". Combined with the pbuilder
>package, it even optimizes your build to your processor. Your
>experience with ladspa-cmt shows another problem: Dependencies. I
>don't know if Gentoo has them, but Debian incorporates
>build-dependencies, so that packages needed for compilation get
>installed before compilation.
Gentoo has dependencies too :)

>The really great thing with Debian is more a social aspect: How can
>literally hundreds of maintainers maintain small parts in a much
>bigger project and in the end you get a working system?
>It's a kind of miracle.
And a social contract too: ;)
http://www.gentoo.org/index-contract.html

regards
v


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