On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > Some more observations in this thread: > > Well I have been reading up a bunch on the Apt vs Portage stuff and > it is validating my inclinations to go with Apt more.
Jumping in rather late... I've been a long time portage fan, and indeed, even used Gentoo for a jukebox system that we built for someone in the entertainment industry. There was bleeding edge support for everything. Gentoo was very very popular at work, most because of the extra high amount of customizations that one can do with it. Indeed, a colleague's gentoo box here is much faster than any ubuntu or other system. But as of today, there is not a single gentoo user in our company, and I have deleted our local gentoo mirror. Reason: - There is only so much that one can patiently wait for.. emerging for hours together waiting for a simply ruby executable is something that a developer cannot tolerate. - Emerging source over a 128/256 kbps line is even more time in case of software such as multimedia players, will take even longer time :( I lurk on the alt-gentoo list and have sometimes tested emerge on OpenSolaris. too. But while I love emerge as a techie, I also realize that emerge is not always end user and bandwidth and CPU friendly (in terms on resources needed to build). -- Sriram
