On 2016-04-16, John Blinka <john.bli...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for > prompting me to add my 2 cents.
Same here. I switched all my "daily drivers" from Mandrake/Mandriva almost 15 years ago, and have no regrets. No more of the RPM dependancy merry-go-round that used to happen so often. I've reinstalled a couple times after major hardware upgrades (disk failure) or decisions to switch from 32 to 64 bits. But I've never needed to routinely reinstall from scratch the way I always had to with RPM-based distros (Mandriva and before that RedHat). With RPM-based distros, upgading across major numbers rarely worked. And I always ended up having to build a lot of libraries and apps from source anyway because of required library version clashes. I still have to regularly install and use RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu in order to test apps/drivers I maintain -- and I'm always glad when I can take off the straigh-jacket and handcuffs and go back to Gentoo. -- Grant
