[oclug] My Current Gentoo Setup

[Milan Budimirovic]

On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 00:43, Ross Jordan wrote:

> Well, I can had dependency problems with both Redhat and Debian, I
> haven't yet had problems with Gentoo. This isn't a particularly fair
> statement because I've used Redhat and Debian much longer, but they
> certainly aren't perfect (esp. for Redhat).
> 

Forgive me if I remain sceptical, but if you look at something like the
Debian project, it takes hundreds of people about two years of
development and testing to produce a "stable" release. That's with
**binaries**, so realistically they are dealing with a set of parameters
several orders of magnitude narrower than Gentoo. And things still break
on occasion.

I do think that Gentoo is kewl, though, and it will undoubtedly find a
niche somewhere. I just don't think that it's a direction that Linux as
a whole ought to go.