[Wolves] Gentoo

fizzy fizzyorguk at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 22 16:18:09 BST 2004


--- sparkes <sparkes at westmids.biz> wrote: > The artist
formally known as C J Coleman was heard
> to say...
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:08:52PM +0100, Stuart
> Langridge wrote:
> >> fizzy said:
> >> > Anyone used/use it? Opinions? Been playing
> around with
> >> > it for a couple of weeks, it's the best distro
> I've
> >> > ever used.
> >>
> >> I keep thinking that it might be cool, but then I
> see things like how
> >> when
> >> you upgrade X you have to leave your machine
> alone for two days while it
> >> compiles it, and I decide that binary-based
> distributions are the way
> >> forward. :-)
> >
> >
> > I currently use Gentoo.  The compile times are not
> as significant as
> > people say, though they can sometimes be annoying.
> 
> With debian when you do a dist-upgrade and go for a
> pint you come back and
> it works.  I can see attempting to do the same thing
> in gentoo is like the
> bsd makeworld thing.  Called make world not because
> it rebuilds everything
> but because it starts of black and 7 days later you
> have a usable system
> but can't remember why you wanted it and take the
> day off.

Nope, it's similar to apt, instead of apt-get update
you go emerge sync then apt-get upgrade emerge
--upgrade system.  Job's a good un :)

> sparkes
fizz

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