On Tuesday 13 March 2007 01:47:18 am Luke-Jr wrote:
Another benefit to Gentoo on servers is that you can more or less entirely omit desktop dependencies like X, ALSA, etc and keep the system at the minimum of what it actually needs.
I've run a number of RPM based servers that didn't have X or ALSA. I've had problems with gentoo wanting to support wacom drawing tablets for almost any application I tried to install - including documentation packages!