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Greg

On 9/17/2004, "Emil P. Man" <mailinglists at synban.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 00:25, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
>> 	I'm trying to setup a linux box that I can use as a video editing station. It needs to grab
>> firewire video and run the various other programs that provide video/audio editing and DVD
>> production. Lots of these programs have dependencies on apps that simply don't come with most
>> distributions and some even seem to require kernel mods (for firewire support). Getting all this going
>> under major distributions like RedHat or Mandrake is getting to be a huge PITA. Frankly - I don't
>> need or want 80% of the packages that most distributions come with and am very comfortable with
>> downloading .tar.gz source files and building from scratch. Indeed - this is often the only way to get
>> things to work at all when I want a feature that isn't compiled into a binary package. Its even more
>> frustrating when the distributions change locations and paths for files from what their defaults are in
>> source distributions so when I finally build/install from source - the result can be a lot of collisions
>> from the previous installation which didn't get cleaned completely when uninstalling the package.
>> Maybe I'm too bleeding edge but I don't really think so.
>>
>> 	Soooo... I'd like a nice, up to date distribution that installs easily, doesn't do a lot of funky
>> custom stuff, and lets me build/install new apps as I need them without worrying about colliding with
>> a bunch of old dependencies. Gentoo might fit the bill except its install is still something far more
>> complex than it need be even at the easiest level. I'd appreciate any recommendations or
>> experiences people can pass along. Maybe I'm just missing some otherwise obvious solution?
>>
>> 	thanx & later,
>>
>> 		Ben Scherrey
>>
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&gt;I have heard good things about Gentoo when it comes with what you are
&gt;describing above.
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