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

[Pete Ryland]

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.
> 
> 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.

There are also plans in Debian to move to using three-way diffs, so that it
can update config files that you have changed, so long as there are no
conflicts.

> 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. :)

You could always try it in a chroot. :-)

Pete
-- 
Pete Ryland
http://pdr.cx/


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug