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

Jim Bailey jim at freesolutions.net
Tue Apr 22 20:47:38 UTC 2003


On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:23:23PM +0100, Simon Stewart wrote:
> 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.

You will need more than until Thursday if you are going to install
Gentoo unless you have a very fast processor.
> 
> 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. 

They now have a tool etc-update that takes a lot of the grind of
updating config files but it isn't their strongest suit.
> 
> 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. :) 

There are people out there doing serious stuff with it, I am not one of
them though.

Peace Jim


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