C Libraries

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
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-----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...).

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