Favorite flavor of Linux? (for python or anything else)

[darren kirby]

quoth the Mike Meyer:
> A lot of the
> rough edges of Gentoo have been dealt with in FreeBSD. For instance,
> you can update from source, but you can also get binary updates.

You can sort of do this with Gentoo. Check out the "--usepkg", "--getbinpkg" 
and "--buildpkg" emerge options. The only problem is that I don't think there 
are many (any?) official repositories of binary packages, and if there are, 
they don't have the full array of all packages available from portage. I 
haven't checked in a while though, so this may be different now.

In any event, it is an excellant timesaver if you have a network of similar 
systems. emerge from source on your staging server, build a bin package, and 
push it to the rest of the systems.

-d
-- 
darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org/
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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