On Friday 16 September 2005 11:24 am, Al Byers wrote: > How does Gentoo do a better job of this than Debian? Does it use Debian > packages? Is the difference between Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo lie in the > strength of their package archives?
I'm not sure I'd go as far as saying that gentoo does a better job than debian--imo they are both very comprobable. I personally happen to like gentoo's interface much better than debians. I think it's much simpler to learn and understand--whereas the default debian interface requires a gnu mind-set 'you _must_ read the docs and learn a bunch of one letter commands to navigate and do anything in the app'. All-in-all, I've been equally impressed with their abilities to correctly resolve dependency issues and actually help me mitigate them, rather than rpm that just dumps a 'required libxyz.so is missing' error w/o telling me in which rpm it is contained, nor giving me the option to just go get it and install it also right then and there. -- Respectfully, Nicholas Leippe Sales Team Automation, LLC 1335 West 1650 North, Suite C Springville, UT 84663 +1 801.853.4090 http://www.salesteamautomation.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
