Gentoo: Excellent if you want a source distro

Gentoo: Excellent if you want a source distro

Posted Sep 20, 2006 15:16 UTC (Wed) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: Gentoo: Excellent if you want a source distro by emk
Parent article: My Gentoo odyssey (Linux.com)

They're slow to upgrade (overnight or longer), and few of them offer a quick rollback of broken packages

If you manage to predict a breakage up front, you can always quickpkg your current package for quick rollback. As for slow upgrades, you can use GRP or a third-party binhost to skip the compile step. I can't say how well mixing binary and source packages works, though, as I've rarely used them myself.

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