Gentoo Linux Is Coming into Its Own (eWeek)

Posted Feb 28, 2005 19:52 UTC (Mon) by piman (guest, #8957)
In reply to: Gentoo Linux Is Coming into Its Own (eWeek) by yodermk
Parent article: Gentoo Linux Is Coming into Its Own (eWeek)

> That alone makes it far better than Debian IMHO. If you try to install something from Debian testing on Debian stable, it will pull over glibc and a bunch of other junk that you may want to keep stable. Not so with Gentoo.

This only happens if the binary package requires the version of glibc in unstable; it pulls in the minimum amount of packages needed. If you can't upgrade glibc for some reason, you can easily build the package yourself with apt-get, and since the dependency on libc is generated at build-time, it will use your libc and not unstable's.