Gentoo rocks -> Debian vs. Gentoo

[Chris Cowan]

If you in a position where TIME is MONEY, building an entire system for 
source is a huge waste of time.. yeah its a great experiance once and a 
while, I even think it gives you an appreciation for what goes into a system, 
but I can't tell that to my boss.  Plus, It's nice to try something out for a 
day and they remove it without having to wait for it to compile...

Chris

On Monday 22 April 2002 08:17 pm, you wrote:
> 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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