[mythtv-users] Distro of choice?

[Michael Haan]

I agree.  i don't think it's so much the optimizations as it is the
reduction in software bloat.  Although, it is nice to know I'm running
64 bit sw on my 64 bit CPU and to know that portage supports 64 bit sw
distribution, whereas apt-get does not.


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:50:11 -0700, Shawn Willden
<shawn-myth at willden.org> wrote:
> Craig Partin wrote:
> 
> >I'm not a portage expert by any means, but I believe this could be
> >easily done.  You would have to build custom ebuild files for your dev
> >packages.  Once the ebuild file (a glorified shell script) was working
> >to your satisfaction, upgrades would be trivial.  You can keep custom
> >ebuilds is a seperate location so that emerge sync doesn't clobber
> >them and then choose from your ebuild or the standard depending on
> >your needs.
> >
> >
> 
> That sounds like too much work for me; my Debian solution is much less
> effort.  Actually it wouldn't take much work to write myself a "build
> world" script:  Just use "dpkg -l" to get a list of all packages on the
> system, use "apt-get source -b" to build them all, then install all of
> the debs.  With a tiny bit more work, it could be smart enough skip
> packages that have up-to-date source-built versions, and to remove
> out-of-date versions.  Add a cron job to start the daily build process
> at 10pm or so... It'd be easy to have it automatically generate and
> apply patches, too.
> 
> Hmmm... I might have to look into that.  That sounds easier than what
> you mention, because I'd only have to write one script for everything,
> rather than modify one per package.
> 
> Now that I've come up with this idea, I need to go look if someone has
> already implemented it as an apt-gettable package... odds are they have.
> 
> >2% faster is still faster :)
> >
> >
> 
> :-)
> 
> >I started with pretty low end hardware and needed all the efficiency I
> >could get.
> >
> 
> Actually, in all seriousness, nearly all of the performance improvements
> you see from processor-specific optimizations come from a tiny handful
> of packages.  You can get about as much performance out of Debian as
> Gentoo just by rebuilding glibc.
> 
> I think that the biggest reason Gentoo boxes seem faster has little to
> do with such optimizations and everything to do with the fact that
> Gentoo users tend to install less software.  Having to wait for
> everything to build enforces a little discipline :-)
> 
>    Shawn.
> 
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