Comment Re:My experiences with Gentoo (Score 1) 438
The answer is, that gentoo does all of the package management in a very smooth way.
I've used debian and apt, and even *shudder* apt for rpm, but both have quite extensive flaws in the depency trees sometimes, that require a lot of re-jigging to master, and that's without moving into unstable.
I don't mind compiling the software, the performance is a better, although more noticeably in some apps than others (e.g. mozilla). Gentoo allows me to compile all the latest software without having to download different versions of different libraries from all over the place to find out on of them won't compile etc...
It's sleek, it's high performance, and it works...
I've used debian and apt, and even *shudder* apt for rpm, but both have quite extensive flaws in the depency trees sometimes, that require a lot of re-jigging to master, and that's without moving into unstable.
I don't mind compiling the software, the performance is a better, although more noticeably in some apps than others (e.g. mozilla). Gentoo allows me to compile all the latest software without having to download different versions of different libraries from all over the place to find out on of them won't compile etc...
It's sleek, it's high performance, and it works...
