On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:06:53PM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:14:22PM -0500, Graham Seaman wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Stephen Williams wrote: > > > > > > > The only time I expect > > > > to compile something is when I'm compiling my own project. > > > > > > > Better keep well away from gentoo :-) > > > > What a nightmare that was. I'm generally distribution agnostic, but > > that one just dragged on and on and on. And none of the packages seemed > > to want to download on the first try, so it would have to keep flipping > > down through it's list of mirrors retrying and retrying. Yikes. > > It happened to me on gentoo when I tried to compile php. It stuck on > java-config this way. > > After a month (!) I gave up and downloaded the source. It even didn't > want any java-config and copiled straight out of the box. > How odd. I've been running gentoo for a year on my laptop. It's always worked perfectly for me, whatever I've installed (not geda though). The only distribution I've tried that has never caused me dependency problems, where everything works first time, and where I always have fairly up-to-date versions of everything. How is that people can have such different experiences (for example, debian has been a nightmare for me since I want up-to-date-ish versions of some packages, while I know other people who say debian never gives them any trouble). Is it just that some people invest more time in learning the details of package management for their distribution than others? Or is it just luck?
Graham
