Not to mention it has the nice abilitly to correctly update deps when doing huge updates, for example just for the hell of it try doing a stable build to a desktop environment level , then rsync against unstable and update to the lastest package , nothing (tm) usually breaks and if it does its the PM notifying you the dep chain isnt complete due to updates etc on the mirror , not the usual gentoo experience of getting 80% of the way through a update and finding out after a longish period of time compiling an important package is borked .
I usually run a source based OS at home , but when using a Distro I still recomend Debian over anything else , I can assure you I have given a large majority of the distros avialable their go , but if you want the best balance between a good dev base (if you want to roll stuff yourself ) easy to maintian daily system and latest packages you cant beat it imho.
Dale.
Rex Johnston wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
The problem in my exp. is that "really bad (tm)" can be as minor as just wanting to run a app which is less than a couple of years old. Debian is ideal if you want to run a totally bog-standard system from 2 or 3 years ago and know all the Debianisms, but if you want anything within 6 leagues of the bleeding edge then you risk encountering real problems.
Oh i dunno...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ COLUMNS=140 dpkg -l | fgrep kdem
ii kdemultimedia 3.3.0-1 KDE Multimedia metapackage
ii kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data 3.3.0-1 Multimedia data for kappfinder
ii kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins 3.3.0-1 au/avi/m3u/mp3/ogg/wav plugins for kfileii kdemultimedia-kio-plugins 3.3.0-1 Support for browsing audio CDs under Konqueror
Wasn't that hard.
Cheers, Rex
