Roberto Mello wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:57:10AM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote:
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
gentoo's interface of what? Are you referring to emerge? It'd be nice if
you corroborated your claim with some examples.
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'.
Again, examples and more context would be nice. "debian interface" of
what? Package management? There are several programs for dealing with
debian packages, all front-ends to dpkg, which you really shouldn't deal
with directly except for well, exceptional occasions.
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
Resolving dependencies when you're compiling everything from scratch is a
lot easier, I presume. Just grab all the sources and their dependencies
and compile them. There are no binary incompatibilities to deal with.
Of course you pay a price for that, but to say that one is "better" than
the other for dependency resolution isn't quite an accurate comparison.
-Roberto
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Well, like I said earlier I've never had a problem with dependencies
when running Gentoo.
My idea of a good interface is something that works as expect every
time, without me having to baby sit it.
I run a daily cron job on emerge --sync && emerge -ud --world that has
kept my desktop computer up to date and in sync for going on a couple
years now, and only ever had one time it wasn't successfuly, which was
during the transition from GCC 3.3 to 3.4 IIRC.
Anyways, I like gentoo, love it really when compared to the other
alternatives I've tried.
If I need something I just emerge it. I don't have to spend 3-4 hours
tracking down libxyz.so which may or may not still be available. And if
something is not available as an ebuild, you can typically make your own
from a source tarball, in about 5-10 commands. Then use a package
overlay. If the package ever does become an ebuild, you can remove the
overlay with about 3-4 commands, and no harm is done to your system.
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