My understanding is that gentoo can be a royal bitch to install. Is that correct, in comparision to debian? Ernest Baca wrote: > By far it is superior. It is sort of like combination of ports and > apt-get. The one thing I personally like is the ability to search the > packages. With apt-get you have to have the name by looking it up on > the internet or just know it. With portage you just say emerge search > kde and it will gice you every match to kde including matches in the > description which makes it useful. The other difference is that with > apt-get you download the binaries I believe and with portage you > download the source and compile it optimized to your system. It can > take some time, for example KDE took me 13 hours to compile on a 2Ghz > machine, but it is well worth it when you get it up and running. The > other great thing is that with just one command "emerge update world" > you can update everything. I like apt-get also, since I use it when > working with my CD, but Gentoo portage is by far the best. Actually the > developers admit that their inspiration for portage came from BSD and > Debian > > > Ernie Baca > Phoenix, Arizona > ebaca@linux-forensics.com > www.linux-forensics.com > > > > > >> From: "Mark Phillips" >> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To: >> Subject: RE: C Libraries >> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:16:39 -0700 >> >> Out of curiosity, how does the gentoo's "emerge sync" compare with >> Debian's "apt-get" for upgrading and installing new software? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mark Phillips >> Phillips Marketing, Inc. >> 480 945-0798 office >> 480 945-9197 fax >> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Kevin >> Brown >> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 9:55 AM >> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> Subject: Re: C Libraries >> >> > It is for this reason that I hate rpm-based distros. Not to start a >> > distro war or anything but I too ran Mandrake for awhile. I was >> running >> > 8.2 and waiting for 9.2 to come out before I upgraded. During the time >> I >> > was waiting for 9.2 (no longer waiting), I tried out Gentoo >> > (http://www.gentoo.org) on another box. Heaven! Everything is always >> up >> > to date and compiled with just what you specify. Yes, that can be a >> > downside for slow boxes, having to compile everything from source but >> on >> > the faster boxes (Duron 800 and up), it's bliss because you can >> specify >> > various compile flags to optimise for your very hardware. >> > Sorry for the ramble but, my point is: After trying Gentoo linux, my >> > patience for RPM (and Mandrake) went straight to zero and I upgraded >> all >> > my production servers to Gentoo as soon as I could (about a week of >> > downtime each) but well worth it to keep up with various security >> > exploits etc. >> >> Another nice thing about Gentoo, if all your machines are the same in >> regards to >> CPU and what compile flags you want to use, you can use one box to do >> all the >> builds on and then push the binary packages to the other machines rather >> than >> having every box suffer the load of compiling every app that they all >> need (e.g. >> glibc, kernel, etc...). >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss