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Petreley On Simplifying Software Installation for Linux

Posted by timothy on from the but-gentoo dept.

markcappel writes "RAM, bandwidth, and disk space are cheap while system administrator time is expensive. That's the basis for Nicholas Petreley's 3,250-word outline for making Linux software installation painless and cross-distro." The summary paragraph gives some hint as to why this isn't likely to happen anytime soon.

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  1. Re:emerge maybe easy. by Blkdeath · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Gentoo was nice for a while, but things broke when I tried to go from gcc 2.95.x to 3.x. That's what finally convinced me to go to Debian.

    You mean {gasp} you replaced the compiler - the centre, the core of your source-based installation, and there were PROBLEMS? Y'don't SAY!

    Gentoo is not for end-users. Enjoy your alternatives.

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