I still havent seen fun stuff like E17 in debians list either as yet ...maybe im not looking hard enough .......
Thats the other beauty of Gentoo with stuff that is currently in development ie E17 ,it is still a simple command to install it ...all the depedancy checking is done automagically and any oddball dependancies for that package are installed but in another "slot" so it doesnt break compatablilty with previously installed packages ...so effectivily you can play with highly unstable software on you "stable" otherwise desktop without having to worry wether youre going to break something in the process .... But Arnt we missing the point of Linux here "CHOICE" if everybody liked the same distro it be bloody boring . My 2c Cheers Dale. On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:40, you wrote: > My comparison is done with the programmes I use most often.... > > Showing package name, Gentoo version, Debian version..... > > Kopete, 6.2, NA > K3b, 0.8.1-r1, 0.8 > Ksambaplugin, 0.4b, NA > Samba, 3.0_alpha24-r1, 2.2.3a-12 > Mozilla, 1.3-r2, 1.2 ?? > Gnucash, 1.8.4, 1.8.1-1 > Evolution, 1.3.92, 1.0.5-1 > Mplayer, 0.9.0_rc5, NA > Kmplayer, 0.7.4a, NA > > Perhaps not very scientific but it has me satisfied. > > Regards, Robert > > -----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) > > << File: packages-sorted.csv >> 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 that the Debian testing list is a little out of date compared to what is 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
