hfastedge's Journal: Gentoo is a thought virus

I noticed that theres like 400 people in the gentoo chatroom on freenode. Thats very close to the amount in debian.

I know what gentoo "is", a package system where you compile your own packages, but has the perks of dependency information.

So I go into this chatroom and ask:
are there any performance comparisons of gentoo vs. debian?

I get "not really".

So I make the conclusion...(wtf is the point of gentoo and its 'building packages on your own is faster for YOU the user....' in its apple-like marketronease IF IF IF they don't even have data to support their package build method's (or lack of) benefits).

Next, however, is the valid issue that gentoo might have a better package management system than debian(which is by far the biggest distro out there). I would rather see a pythonized version of apt that addresses all the issues, this would directly benefit from its use of all debian's maintainer system (which holds things back....hmm...thinking....comment later.

Re:Gentoo

[hfastedge]

great, numbers justifying all of this work.

its the classic, development cost vs. performance cost, just slightly different