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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] binary package installation problem
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:31:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117143132.664dabb5@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511170528.32382.yeahsowhat@gmail.com>

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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:28:32 -0600, Chris Cox wrote:

> Besides, why would you want to use someone elses pre-compiled package?
> You have a lot more control over it by building it from source

To get a working desktop as quickly as possible. It is no different from
doing a stage 3 installation, it gets you working faster, then you can
optimise at your leisure.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Never get into fights with ugly people because they have nothing to lose.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17 10:27 [gentoo-user] binary package installation problem askar k
2005-11-17 10:37 ` Nagatoro
2005-11-17 11:18   ` askar k
2005-11-17 11:28     ` Chris Cox
2005-11-17 14:31       ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2005-11-18  8:12         ` askar k
2005-11-18  8:46           ` Neil Bothwick
2005-11-18 12:24             ` askar k
2005-11-18 21:14           ` Nick Rout
2005-11-17 10:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-11-18  8:14   ` askar k

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