Forgot to add that if you just want to update a package it works well also,
you just type "emerge update package" . It will see if it's up to date and
if not will update whatever needs to be updated.
Ernie Baca
Phoenix, Arizona
ebaca@linux-forensics.com
www.linux-forensics.com
>From: "Ernest Baca" <erniebaca@msn.com>
>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 11:22:31 -0700
>
>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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