On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:56 PM, carmen <_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 12:21:52PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: >> jrogers wrote: >> >> > - Manual install (like arch Linux) is fine and probably preferred. (manual is >> > fine, but complete default instructions would be needed) >> >> Regardless of what may or may not be wrong with Ubuntu Studio, >> I think you should still choose to use a system with debian >> packaging. >> >> Yes, it has its faults, but no other packaging system comes near >> it for ease of distribution, security, reliability, upgrade-ability >> and so on. > > are you joking? its a hodge podge of perl scripts and baroque practices > > if you want a 'canonical', 'trusted' binary of fairly recent vintage of a somewhat popular app, im sure you can't go wrong > > > but for stuff like audio where 98% of the stuff you want to instal resides in Git/Hg, > > ive had much greater availability and ease with two solutions: > > proaudio overlay (for gentoo) and Paludis (for handling of hg/git/vcs depchain updating) > > and the AUR / archaudio.org project for Arch.. I cannot imagine where this thread is really going. It should be fun to read... I guess folks who don't run Gentoo generally have such a negative view, but I really like it for this audio application. +1 for the pro-audio overlay. +1 for slotting. +1 for being able to create your own overalys. I built this machine 5-6 years ago and have never had to do an upgrade. Just keeps running with a few commands. It's hard for me to imagine using a distro anymore that doesn't fully consider the user building ALL code from scratch, like Gentoo. Sure I often wish I didn't have to build things, but I won't use a distro that doesn't support me to do it from scratch on all programs. It shouldn't be considered out of the ordinary. - Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
