Well, so it was wrong prev distro [LWN.net]

Well, so it was wrong prev distro

Posted Sep 20, 2006 3:54 UTC (Wed) by gvy (guest, #11981)
In reply to: My Gentoo odyssey (Linux.com) by flewellyn
Parent article: My Gentoo odyssey (Linux.com)

I guess when you were stuck with RH9 (and glibc/gcc upgrade issues were really unsolvable with updates), the problem was with not considering changing it *right away* when the phrase "sub-distro maintenance" might have struck you. If it was even earlier, then it was somewhat worse -- influencing RH seems to have been somewhat hard, and regarding glibc soname changes within N.x -- impossible.

Having somewhat artifical nightmare then is indeed guaranted to make you relief when you, as they say here, finally "sell the goat". :)

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Mike,
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Well, so it was wrong prev distro

Posted Sep 20, 2006 4:41 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]

Certainly, although Gentoo does still have some major advantages, in that I can determine compile-time settings for a package without having to jump out of the package system. In my experience with Debian, if I want to do that, I can pull down the source DEB, but I have to manually build it. And updates aren't as transparent: if I want to keep those settings, I have to make sure I do the manual build of the updated package every time.

Although they may have changed it a bit since Woody.