From: Richard Cox <[email protected]> To: Roy Wright <[email protected]> Date: Today 01:08:51 > > Gentoo is difficult to install.
A highly subjective statement to be sure. Many thousands have successfully installed it...depends on your definition of 'difficult' I suppose. >>Also, if it's left un-updated for >> longer periods of time, it tends to break on the next update. So does any dynamic system that is allowed to stagnate. May I propose a solution? Don't leave it un-updated for 'a long period of time'. It's not that hard, really...if you are super paranoid, just emerge --sync once a week and then emerge -up --deep world...I know, that's rocket science, but it can give you an up-to-date system with little trouble...assuming you have internet access, of course. Again, I suppose that depends on what you mean by 'a long period of time'. Let Debian or any other distro remain un-updated for a year or more tell me about how easy it is to update without breaking. Actually, that wasn't fair...because you are basically going to do a re-install (or version upgrade, as many distros call it these days) when that happens. On Sunday 28 December 2008 00:50:32 you wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Gentoo is difficult to install. Also, if it's left un-updated for > > longer periods of time, it tends to break on the next update. I guess > > that's the downside of being versionless. Debian on the other hand, due > > to it being versioned, doesn't have that problem. > > When I ran an internal gentoo server at my last job, I would try to > schedule an update about once a month. That was a lesson learned after > the box just worked great for 7 months, then we wanted to add a new > application that needed newer libraries, that turned into a 2 day > marathon to update the server (it was old, slow hardware). > > I will predict that you will most miss portage after having to deal with > the brain dead apt package manager. > > Good Luck On Sunday 28 December 2008 00:50:32 Roy Wright wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Gentoo is difficult to install. Also, if it's left un-updated for > > longer periods of time, it tends to break on the next update. I guess > > that's the downside of being versionless. Debian on the other hand, due > > to it being versioned, doesn't have that problem. > > When I ran an internal gentoo server at my last job, I would try to > schedule an update about once a month. That was a lesson learned after > the box just worked great for 7 months, then we wanted to add a new > application that needed newer libraries, that turned into a 2 day > marathon to update the server (it was old, slow hardware). > > I will predict that you will most miss portage after having to deal with > the brain dead apt package manager. > > Good Luck
