[ILUG] Suggestions for best 64 bit Linux distro?

[nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie]

Quoting Paul Biggar <paul.biggar at gmail.com>:

> On 6/29/05, nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie <nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie> wrote:
> > Quoting Andres Jimenez <gandresin at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > > Your copy of a package is really your own. It might never have been
> > > > tested with your exact combination of CFLAGS and USE flags. And since
> > > > it's bleeding edge, this is all the more likely. And if you unmask
> > > > anything, even more likely.
> > > Jackpot for Paul! That's the point. The more you customize, the less
> > > that config is tested. If you trust your wisdom (or you can afford a 3
> > > days long outage) Gentoo is great. If you think comunity's experience
> > > is more important Gentoo is not your brand of vodka.
> > portage allows you to do these things, you dont have to do them, I think I
> > recall saying this before.
>
> No, you have to do them. If you don't USE something, it wont be
> compiled in. So if I need my web server to provide perl support, it
> needs to be in my USE flags. If I want to use apache2 instead of
> apache, I need to specify that use flag. Gentoo is completely centered
> around USE flags, and I doubt theres a single user out there without
> at least 1 USE flag.
>
> Besides, the idea that you would run gentoo without USE flags is
> insane. It would be so completely useless without flags set, and the
> importance of USE flags so central to your argument, that I can't
> believe you would suggest that to not use them.
>
>
> Paul
>


sorry, I ment the CFLAGS and optimisations, bleh, as for use flags, sure you
need to specify them in make.conf, or on the command line