True. But you can't compare Gentoo with Debian unstable. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor Lauder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 2:23 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Linux Work
> 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. > > > > >
