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" <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>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...).
>
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