Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

[Roberto Mello]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:51:49AM -0700, Nicholas Leippe wrote:
> compile my own apache and php to suite my needs exactly.  With Gentoo, it's 
> easy to tell the package system that they are in fact installed, so that 
> other dependencies are still correctly met.  This is a feature that I have 
> not seen in other systems.

With Debian you use equivs. It's very simple, but not quite
straight-forward.

-Roberto