Some information

Some information

Posted Aug 31, 2006 6:52 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Wow, some misinformation never dies. by sholdowa
Parent article: Gentoo Linux 2006.1 released

In short: with Gentoo you get to choose the dependencies you want. You don't want a dependency with GNOME, fine: you can remove it. You cannot do that with apt. emerge then figures out the remaining dependencies for you.

Gentoo makes for a very nice desktop; try it one time instead of blindly bashing the fine work of many people. It was not lost time: I learned a lot. In the end I got tired of synchronizing with the repos and recompiling: yes, it's tiring, I felt like a distro maintainer (which in a sense I was). But then I had been spoilt by apt and rpm...

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