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I totally agree to neil's assessment. Mike certainly has point that |
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Debian is more mature in some aspects (is has been around since '93). |
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That being said it is lacking so much in other departments that for me |
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it is no serious alternative to Gentoo (difficulty installing source |
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packages not in the apt repositories, inferior security support in |
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comparison to Gentoo to name a few). |
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I really believe we should give Gentoo some time to evolve (Gentoo was |
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first released in 2002) In time gentoo will become more mature and |
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better fit to our needs. In order to achieve this however we all need to |
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put an effort into making Gentoo the best distro available. So please |
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stop talking and get moving. Open a thread, mobilize people, contact |
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aforementioned Gentoo businesses. _Contribute_ in any way possible to |
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realize the features you envision. |
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> |
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> On 12/31/06, *Neil Walker* <neil@×××××××.nu <mailto:neil@×××××××.nu>> |
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> wrote: |
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> Mike Myers wrote: |
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> > I just wanted to add something to the original post. |
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> > |
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> > I've recently began experimenting with Debian and noticed their |
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> > updating system is exactly like what I was asking |
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> about. Basically, |
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> > there's package updates, and then there's distro updates. Why is it |
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> > unreasonable for Gentoo to have something like this? I think it |
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> would |
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> > help Gentoo a lot in the server market, where scalability is |
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> important. |
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> If Debian does what you want then why not go with it? What would |
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> be the |
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> point in making Gentoo like Debian? Gentoo offers a different approach |
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> which many of us like. It's all about choice - if you like Debian, |
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> choose it - but don't expect Gentoo to turn into a Debian clone. It's |
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> not going to happen. |
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> -- |
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> gentoo-user@g.o <mailto:gentoo-user@g.o> mailing list |
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> The update system is the -only- nice thing about it over Gentoo. |
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> Debian is nowhere near Gentoo when it comes to everything else |
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> (especially docs). I don't think suggesting a single feature that |
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> another distro has and putting into Gentoo is trying to make it a |
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> clone. I'm just asking for a relief from having to constantly worry |
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> if updating something out of the 300 packages that need updated is |
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> going to break something, and not having to make sure etc-update isn't |
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> going to destroy my custom configs afterwards. If it wasn't for that, |
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> Gentoo would be perfect. I'm sure there's got to be others that would |
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> agree. |
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