[Gllug] I don't know why I love you but I do

[Simon Stewart]

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 7:04 pm, Ashley Evans wrote:
> Seeming as I don't have to work until Thursday I'm quite tempted by this
> whole Gentoo thing. I'm currently a Debian Woody user running KDE 3.1.1.
> Are there any pitfalls to look-out for when switching over? I'm planning on
> keeping my home partition so I guess I'll have to keep an eye on the config
> files on /home.

Upgrading (or even installing) your system can be a lengthy and painful 
exercise, if only because it takes _forever_ to compile your entire world 
(which is the whole attraction of gentoo) I also found that I prefer the way 
that debian handles updating config files: the assumption being that if 
you've altered the config file, you know what you're doing and asking you 
what to do, but if it's unchanged then it goes ahead and updates the config 
file. Gentoo, OTOH, just dumps the new config files in hidden files, which 
you then have to comb through by hand. 

This means that it's a great enthusiasts distro, but if you want to use your 
computer as a tool on which you can quickly and simply install new or updated 
software I'd advise against switching from debian. But that's the wonder of 
linux: horses for courses. :)

Cheers,

Simon


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