[Ilugc] Gentoo Advantages?

[Sridhar R]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 01:21:35 -0500, Suriya Narayanan M S
<suriya at cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:33:50PM +0530, Sridhar R wrote:
> >
> > Conditional dependencies are possible only with a ports based system.
> > If a app supports gnome and ncurses frontend for eg., you could get
> > all 3 possibilties with gentoo (using USE flags but same package),
> > where in debian you may need 3 seperate .debs
> >
> 
> So what? By the way, won't there be a common case where 90% of the
> people would use a common frontend? They would just package for that,
> and provide alternatives to the others.

  Nothing.  Gentoo is all about choice.  Being a developer I am very
much addicted to Gentoo rather than Debian.

> I installed gentoo in my friend's box, but then moved back to Debian
> within the day. I don't really get the point as to why this is so badly
> required.

  If you're comfortable with Debian stay with it.  That doesn't mean
that you shouldn't defer gentoo installtion.
  For me it took 2 or 3 installations to get going with Gentoo (before
getting a decent Internet connection).  But debian didn't satisfy me
after many installtions (in fact I had a lot of interest in debian)

> 
> Suriya
> 


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