[wellylug] Distro Changing...

[Damon Lynch]

On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 22:18, David Antliff wrote:

> There are binary builds in portage for large packages like openoffice,
> which can save considerable time. However if you're going to build
> openoffice from source, can I recommend openoffice-ximian - it needs the
> Gnome libraries but it's much nicer (anti-aliased fonts for starters).

Mandrake's OpenOffice packages have had anti-aliased fonts for some time
now.  I'm no expert but I guess it depends on whether OOo is using it's
own xfs, or the system one.

> Nobody has mentioned this, but one of the features that makes Gentoo so
> good is 'portage', 

As I recall, there was a split earlier this year in the Gentoo community
over those that wanted to continue with Python powering this, and those
who wanted alternatives.  Did the alternatives get off the ground?  Is
Python still considered the best implementation in the Gentoo community?

Best wishes,
Damon