Nope, and I never did. I'm just saying Gentoo isn't as stress tested as other binary distros.
Trevor > 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.
