You can't compare an unstable tree in Debian to an unstable tree in Gentoo, nor can you do it for the stable tree. One distro is tried, tested and older software, the other one is the latest and greatest and the least tested. Once again you are comparing apples and oranges and making unfair comparisons.
Trevor >> Of course not. Nothing is perfect, and life's a bitch. However there >> is > less >> chance that my system will get messed up if I upgrade Mandrake using >> urpmi > than >> with Gentoo. It's the same with having the latest and greatest on any > system. >> Mandrake Cooker or Debian Unstable/Testing have a better chance of >> killing > my >> system too. > > I wasn't talking about using Gentoo's unstable offerings... They aren't > included in my sync downloads. > > Much of Gentoo is built on Debian (This is obvious from the ebuild > readme files). Similar to the way Debian does it, there are unstable > ebuilds in Gentoo which are moved to stable later on. > > Kev.
