Try http://gentoo-stable.iq-computing.de/

For all available Gentoo versions of packages

Regards, Robert

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Brad Beveridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent:   Tuesday, 10 June 2003 1:55 p.m.
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        RE: Gentoo (was Re: OpenBSD)

Sorry - that's not apples and apples.  You're comparing Gentoo stable vs
Debian testing.  However I can't see how to get the website to display it's
unstable packages :)  Maybe Debian unstable might be a closer comparison (I
won't suggest trying Deb stable - that's just unfair!)

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Gregan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2003 1:41 p.m.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Gentoo (was Re: OpenBSD)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:51:19PM +1200, 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Read my lips. Take up the challenge.
> 
> Right.  I've taken a list of packages from [1], and compared 
> that to the list of packages in Debian testing[2].  Note that 
> there is a good chance that the Debian testing list is a 
> little out of date compared to what is actually available in 
> the testing tree.  The same may be true of the Gentoo list, 
> but I can't comment on that.
> 
> For each package/version pair listed at [1], I've checked the 
> package/version pair listed at [2] and generated a list of 
> packages and the version that Gentoo and Debian testing are offering.
> 
> Attached[3] is a comma-separated value list, containing a 
> list of Packages, and the versions that are reported to be 
> available according to [1] and [2].
> 
> In most cases where the two distributions are not equal, 
> Debian testing is coming out ahead.  There are a few cases 
> where it appears Gentoo has an advantage (e.g. raidtools), 
> but this is because Debian offers raidtools 0.4x and 0.9x separately.
> 
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/sys-apps/index.xml
> [2] http://packages.debian.org/testing/allpackages.html 
> [3] I don't generally like attaching files to emails that are destined
>     for a mailing list, but in this case the file is smaller 
> than most of
>     the top-posting full-quoting emails that I receive from this list.
> 
> Cheers,
> -mjg
> -- 
> Matthew Gregan                     |/
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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