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" <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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