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On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:56, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I agree again. The ONLY problem I'm having with Gentoo is the devs |
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> removing older revs of things from portage. (ati-drivers, MythTV, |
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> etc.) |
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In cases like that, you use portage overlays. Then the ebuild will |
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always be there until *you* delete it |
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Just another example of The Gentoo Way where the user is completely in |
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control :-) |
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[snip] |
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> > I really don't care if Gentoo is considered a minority distro, it |
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> > is not, and hopefully never will be, a mass market product. |
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> I'd prefer it did not. I still love Gentoo. It's easily the most |
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> stable distro I've ever run. (RH & Suse here.) The support from the |
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> devs has been second to none. |
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I can attest to that. I run ~x86 on this notebook, sync daily and on |
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*testing* *unstable* ebuilds I have to fix things only about once a |
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week on average. That's phenomenal. |
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My day job is, amongst other things, delivering the Red Hat courses and |
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supporting RHEL where we installed it for customers. Now RHEL is pretty |
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good as an enterprise OS but it's also a binary distro and you are |
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stuck with what the RH engineers decided to give you. They are a decent |
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crowd and genuinely try their best but they can't satisfy everyone, so |
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they've sacrificed flexibility for a standard, unchanging platform. To |
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a gentoo user that just feels .... constrained |
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alan |
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