[CLUE-Tech] distro question

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:00:51 -0600
David Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

> Adam Bultman wrote:
> > That's right, I'm top posting.  My comment is an general one, not 
> > necessarily picking and choosing from the below lines.
> 
> Well, thanks for trimming your quotes anyway ;-)
> 
> [...]
> > I like gentoo for a few different reasons:
> > 1.  It is source based, but requires very little intervention from
> > me. 
> > 2.  Dependencies are solved automagically.
> > 3. I don't have to surf the net to get new packages.
> > 4. It doesn't have problems like RPM and APT have (and yes, I know
> > how to use both).
> > 5.  HArd to install programs (gnucash, mplayer, xine) work fine and 
> > install easy.
> 
> Except for 1., Debian works this way for me.  And maybe 1. too if I'd 
> ever bothered with source packages.
> 
> Re 2., if you install a package and it brings along 3 packages it 
> depends on, do those 3 go away automatically when you remove it?

With gentoo, no, but a facility is provided to find these packages and
allow you to remove them.

> 
> Re 4., what problems have you had with apt?
> 

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