[plug] Gentoo

[Tony Clark]

I've been using it for a couple of months now.  I like it as it tends to be 
very up to date but that has a down side that things break once in a while 
though nothing serious so far.  You can reckon on using a lot of drive space 
as it doesn't delete source code that you install.  You can do that yourself.  
I started with the basic tar ball but I installed it onto another drive and 
just chroot to where I was putting it.  You can reckon on the best part of a 
day of compiling on a reasonably fast machine with kde or gnome.  Emerge is 
ok, maybe not as powerfull as apt.  If you uninstall a program it won't 
remove any un-needed dependencies yet.  You have to work them out and remove 
them if you care.  There is plenty of support available in mailing lists 
forums and IRC and the developers take a very proactive part in that support.

tony


On Thursday 24 October 2002 15.04, Chris Caston wrote:
> Just wondering... have many of you have played with Gentoo yet?
>
> I'm going to install 1.4 on my athlon machine. What experiences have you
> had with it?
>
> Does emerge hit debian where is hurts or is recompiling everything take
> way to long?
>
> Which stage tarball did you use?
>
> I've heard that it takes some time to setup but once you do you've got a
> very fast system.
>
>  Also more recently the main LTSP ebuilds came out but if you want other
> LTSP packages then you'd probably have to make the ebuilds yourself I
> suppose.
>
> regards,
>
> Chris Caston

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