Gentoo rocks -> Debian vs. Gentoo

[Chris Cowan]

Man... 

LATE NIGHTS = BAD GRAMMER!!!!

Chris

On Monday 22 April 2002 11:22 pm, you wrote:
> 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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