On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:49:43PM -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Gentoo is also for people like me who want all the latest stuff to > work well together. In my experience, most of the problems with > binary packages are due to subtle library incompatibilities. Gentoo > seems to eliminate that whole class of bugs. Thus Gentoo actually > saves me the time I used to spend chasing down library mismatches.
I've been running Debian for years (including testing branches), and I
don't recall the last time I had a library mismatch. If you want a
good mix of binary packages that are fairly well tested together, that
are fairly recent, and that get fairly up-to-date security fixes, give
Ubuntu a whirl.
And don't get stupid with your package management. Do esoteric hacks
only if you know how to use the package manager right, and you won't
ever see a mismatched shared library.
Mike
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