[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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