emerge vs urpmi (Was: Julia's laptop - chapter 11010 - Also, play DVD on Linux?)

[Yuri de Groot]

Nick Rout wrote:

>USE="dvd" emerge mplayer (or emerge xine)

So you're suggesting I switch to gentoo.
It's not a bad idea, provided that the GUI (KDE) works very similarly on gen2
and mdk.

Julia doesn't like drastic changes on her laptop.

Yuri