[mythtv-users] Re: Is gentoo the way to go?

[Myth Lists]

Mike Frisch wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:26:17AM -0500, Myth Lists wrote:
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>>Have I missed something or do they have pre-compiled packages hiding
>>somewhere??
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>You can do a 'stage3' installation which has precompiled binaries for
>most of the base system.  See the installation handbook for details.
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>The whole 'advantage' of Gentoo is being able to customize it to your
>system, hence the reason for compiling on YOUR system.  I lost interest
>in that and have migrated all 3 of my Gentoo installs over to Ubuntu.
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I might try a stage3 install when I have some time.  I run pure Debian 
on my main backend system.  Was running Mepis and have tried FC4, Ubuntu 
and slackware.  I have Ubuntu on my Notebook running without problems.

Too many distros -- I need to settle on one and make them all that way :)

Norm