Gentoo rocks -> Debian vs. Gentoo

[Matt Pruett]

To Bob:

I supose "advanced" is a bit much for the catagorization. However I was
refering to users who dont have to rely on automated configuration tools
to get things running. Also the nessesity of reading a document to
install the software initialy.

To Chris:

Gentoo's package management is quite elegant because it is compiling the
packages from source instead of prebuild binarys. Considering this, and
it beeing as easy if not easyer to use than most other package
management systems is what I find appealing.
 

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 23:23, bob smith wrote:
> 
> I'd have to disagree about it being for advanced users
> only.
> 
> I switched to gentoo because I wasn't thrilled with
> the other package management systems. I liked apt ok,
> but I still kind of felt swamped by having to use
> dpkg, apt-get, apt-search, dselect, etc. Now if I want
> something I can "emerge -s <foo>" and if I find it
> "emerge <foo>"...it's that easy. Other than that it's
> pretty much the same :). 
> 
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