[GLLUG] Distro of Choice?
Phillip Hofmeister
plhofmei at antiochcomputerconsulting.com
Thu Aug 19 08:04:31 EDT 2004
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 at 12:51:21PM -0400, Matt Graham wrote:
> "Hear, hear", surely? I use Gentoo on all my personal machines because
> its installation and configuration process is very well-documented,
> there's no Dependency Hell, keeping a system up to date is insanely
> easy, and it's possible to install mplayer and all its codecs without
> the tedious and obscure steps necessary on Debian.
No tedious and obscure steps needed. Mplayer has a nice debian/
directory (maybe you've seen it). You can uses dpkg-buildpackage to
compile everything into a nice .deb (one step....)
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Phillip Hofmeister
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