[Pan-users] Re: alternate editor again

[Duncan]

Sebastian Menge <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:03:13
+0000:

> Great, then I'll wait until that hits the Ubuntu archives. (I'm to lazy
> to compile my own day-today software)

LOL.  Running Gentoo here, so it's compiled either way.  I did create my 
own pan SVN ebuild, however, integrating it with the regular portage 
packaging system.  Of course, compiling isn't such a big deal anymore 
with dual-cores and gigs of memory.  (I'm running dual Opteron, soon to 
upgrade to dual-cores, 8 gigs memory, /tmp as tmpfs and that's where all 
the compiling scratch files go, so they don't even hit the drive until 
installation.)

In a few years, I expect compiled from scratch will begin to take off, as 
there'll no longer be a major difference in install time, and compile 
from scratch has some benefits that'll begin to outweigh the decreasing 
time difference.  Honestly, I'm not sure I'd have had the patience to do 
it on hardware below the dual Opteron 242s I'm using now, tho I respect 
those that do, but change is change.

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