[gobolinux-users] Migrating from Gentoo

[Daniele Maccari]

Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> On Wed, 07 May 2008 20:21:54 +0200, Daniele Maccari <gobo.users at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> Laurynas O. wrote:
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>>> Hello,
>>>       
>> Hello :D
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>>> can GoboLinux be used as a source distro?
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>> Sure it can, in fact it is a mainly source based distro.
>>     
> No, it's a hybrid. That recipes are used more than packages are mostly
> due to our small package repository. Afaik GoboLinux was meant to be a
> binary package distro, but Compile (originally a dev/packager tool?)
> has proven a very affective way to install applications.
>   
I knew you will be there to correct me, but that's actually what I meant :)
I should've added "at the moment".
>
> I have not used Gentoo, only touched it briefly, so could you explain the
> use of make.conf?
>
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Mainly compilation optimization, iirc.
>> Just out of curiosity, ofc?
>>     
> "of course"
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Thanks.