On 1/5/07, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-todd, still working with apt
I don't know about Todd, but the reason I started seeking something post-gentoo wasn't because of the initial install or because of wanting to install programFOO and the one-time installation wait of 28min or something. That never bothered me because frankly, I just don't install an OS or even little applications too often. My problem w/ gentoo was that updates are almost near continuous and *really* time consuming. Application A or B or AAXXXZ often has a security update, or just a bugfix, which then gets merged into portage, and what happened for me is... I started dreading keeping in sync w/ the package repository. I started scrutinizing whether certain security patches were really necessary because having to wait 30min to 1.5hrs almost every day there's an update gets real old real quick. So I started looking for binary-based distros again. The problems w/ either Debian-stable or Debian-testing/-unstable have been well documented (and experienced personally). I get annoyed when distros like Kubuntu or Fedora significantly modify the upstream packages since it makes providing bug-reports frustrating (is this upstream or distro's fault?), so I'm still a bit lost. Lately, instead of debian or gentoo, I've been using archlinux. I wonder if others have experience and feedback w/ the pacman package manager. For me, archlinux has been working out very well. The only complaint, if I have one, is their package repository isn't as big as debian's or gentoo's, which is nice when basically EVERYTHING is already packaged. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
