On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 22:20 -0600, Steve wrote: > In otherwords... > Gentoo iz teh r0xx0rz!
Alas gentoo is a pretty poor choice for a linode account. There's not a lot of disk, memory and CPU available. I also think most folks wouldn't run gentoo on servers either (it would violate several security doctrines unless you did only binary packages). I also suffered greatly with Debian on linode (cursed stable vs unstable). Finally going to Fedora and then to RHEL. The linode box is really intended to be a server, not a desktop development machine. > > Just as an aside, I'm currently enjoying my Kubuntu distro, it doesn't > seem to run into dependency hell no matter what I install or > uninstall. That's really the beauty of apt-get or any decent management tool such as yum. Without apt-get, dpkg is no more or less than rpm, except that dpkgs tend to be a little more fine-grained when it comes to configuration options (do you want kdelibs-ssl or just kdelibs?). If the RPM architecture would allow for that (and the distros agree to support multiple versions of programs), it would make my life a little easier I think. But it's the automatic dependency hell-make-into-heaven features that make all the difference in the world. Just for the record, though, I have had dependency hell in Debian before, even with apt-get, but it was a stable vs unstable problem. Michael > > On 9/3/06, Justin Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On AD 2006 September 03 Sunday 09:58:50 PM -0600, Daniel C. wrote: > > > On 9/3/06, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >He could have > > > >installed Debian stable or testing and just installed the lisp stuff by > > > >hand. > > > > > > Which is exactly what I did, and it broke a lot of dependencies for > > > other packages because I had new (unstable) version of those > > > libraries. It kept saying things like > > > > > > required: glibc > x.y.1, x.y.5 is installed > > > > In the case of a few 'unstable' level package versions I've found gentoo > > to be more forgiving with dependencies. > > > > > > Justin > > > > -- > > You have 1 Moderator Point! Use it or lose it! > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
