Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (379 mails)

[David Haller <dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Fri, 01 Apr 2011, Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2011 08:47:32 David Haller wrote:
> > - openSUSE is (for me increasingly sadly, I hate "automatisms") not as
> >           malleable as gentoo. *ARGH*! Just now, there's a really
> >           "bad" idea popping into my mind[2]
>
> To me, with OBS and Studio, openSUSE is malleable to a far wider audience at 
> the distro-customisation-by-package-selection and preconfiguration level.  I 
> grant you that it's not as simple to reconfigure compilation en masse as with 
> Gentoo's use flags.

Yeah, the "I do not ever want smb, pulseaudio, blah" that (mostly) is
possible with gentoo is what appeals to me the most. Having a "tree"
of .spec-files and basically osc (configure to build completely
locally) + some smallishish wrappers that DL the source from the Repo,
build the stuff with osc and then install it, and still being able to
mix with normal oS packages would be the best of both worlds ;)

> > - openSUSE is ... well, SUSE Live-CDs exist, haven't used one though
> >           in years
>
> You should try one of our Live images out if you haven't used one since the 
> days of static LiveCDs where you'd try out a distro that then throw away in 
> favour of a DVD.

Haven't the time and I actively hate "Live" configurations. Rembember:
I hate automatisms. Keep in mind: up until last October or so, I've
used an SUSE 6.2 continuously updated with self-built packages on my
then main box (04/'00-10/'10: Athlon 500, 128..320 MB RAM, ~10G..1.2T
disk). I usually just use WindowMaker, a dozen xterms or more, XEmacs,
mc, mutt, tin, gkrellm, xawtv ...

-dnh

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