Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Keith Dart <keith@×××××××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:09:26
Message-Id: 20090819000850.7b84113a@dartworks.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood by Paul Hartman
1 === On Wed, 08/12, Paul Hartman wrote: ===
2 > I seem to feel that it's more mature, too. I haven't stopped using it,
3 > but in the last 5 years that I've been using it, it has definitely
4 > gotten much easier and more manageable thanks to the hard work of so
5 > many people.
6 ===
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8 Oh, yes. It seems the portage build system is "smarter" now, and takes
9 care of more things for you. Then there are the useful tools such as
10 revdep-rebuild and eix. And openrc is just wonderful (thanks Roy!)
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12 The only problem with Gentoo is the constant, rolling updates you simply
13 MUST do from time to time. And if you have several Gentoo systems,
14 well, it starts to become a little burdensome...
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16 Each Gentoo system is unique in the world.
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