The evolution of Fedora Core Linux

[A. Khattri]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Net Llama! wrote:

> Actually, i was talking about Gentoo as well.

Well, what you said was:

"They don't call them Gentoo Ricers for nothing."

That is a comment about *your* perception of Gentoo *users*.
Again, we can agree to disagree without being insulting.

> package selection nightmares, GEntoo is the granddaddy of them all, with a
> maze of packages, and no well engineered mechanism for someone
> inexperienced to select them, and worse, spending hours waiting for the
> multitude of interdependencies to get installed.

My experience is that its dead easy to find and install anything in the
package tree since there are tools in Gentoo to manage all that quite
well.

I also guess you missed the comment about the regular base install being a
stage 3 (i.e. binary install) now. If you want additional packages you
just install what you need and the dependencies are taken care of. It
still ends up being pretty minimal which suits me fine.


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