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Wow, some misinformation never dies.Wow, some misinformation never dies.Posted Aug 31, 2006 1:18 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)In reply to: Wow, some misinformation never dies. by sholdowa Parent article: Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released
If you use a binary package from Debian, you get the compile-time options that the maker of the package selected. If you use Gentoo, you get the compile-time options that YOU selected. The benefits here should be readily apparent. Another thing to note is that Portage is a lot better at figuring out dependency information than APT. I have used both extensively, and Portage wins hands down at handling thorny dependency issues, where APT would simply scream and die. And don't even get me started on RPM/yum, that's just a horrid mess. Also of note: if you have the ability to rebuild any necessary package (or its dependencies) at need, API or ABI changes are much less problematic. My Gentoo box handled the change from gcc-3.3 to 4.0 without problems, all C++ applications were rebuilt and just worked.
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Wow, some misinformation never dies. Posted Aug 31, 2006 4:01 UTC (Thu) by sholdowa (guest, #34811) [Link] No. Portage is *currently* at least as good as / better than rpm or dpkg in this respect at the moment. They all stuff up on a regular basis ( yes, even SuSE (: ), it's just not currently gentoo's turn.
( Although I've been hearing comments to the contrary, and complaints about the amount of diskspace required lately - but that's probably just a knock-on effect of 2006.0 getting a bit long in the tooth )
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