John Haltiwanger wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:30 AM, doki_pen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
doki_pen wrote:
John Haltiwanger wrote:
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If someone wants to get to know their computer, there is
always Arch. Or Gentoo, if they ever get their overlay
issues worked out. (Or slack or,... n+1). Arch is the best
of option out there right now for a second (or third or
fourth) distro, but Ubuntu is easily the best 'first
distro' around, in my experience.
And what, prey tell, is the overlay issue?
lol, I really need some coffee.. My grammar really isn't _that_ bad.
Not sure if you are still wondering, but my experience most recent
experience with Gentoo (March 09) has been a mess of overlays,
something that was never an issue before. To get an even halfway
recent ebuild for an app I had to jump through a bunch of overlay
hoops, with each overlay potentially adding incompatabilities. The net
effect is that the main portage tree felt stagnant. When I used Gentoo
as the deployment Linux when I administered a computer lab in 2006, I
never even heard mention of an overlay. Now it seems that adding an
overlay is the first step mentioned in installing apps in Gentoo.
That's no good. I don't find the need to use overlays very often. What
I like about gentoo is that (like Arch) creating packaging scripts is
dead simple. I have my own overlay for stuff I need more up-to-date
then what gentoo provides. But it's very rare. Usually unmasking
things is enough for me. Only code that I actually work on has to be
tip. I guess it really depends on what you are doing though, for a dev
box, I love it.
