On Thu, 12 May 2005, C R. Little wrote: > I use the package system for a lot just not everything. I'm beginning to > use it for more stuff. I use to work in Redhat a lot so the package > system was not the first thing I noticed in gentoo.
This sounds like the way I used to work in RedHat - install the base OS but use tarballs for the important stuff like Apache, MySQL, etc. (Of course, once you have several boxes like this it becomes a nightmare to maintain, which was a good reason for me to switch to Gentoo ;-) But package updates seem to be more frequent with Gentoo than RH. > I really like gentoo a lot, I'm trying to get more familiar with the > workstation end of it, and at the the same time clean up the systems, > remove the manually compiled programs and use the package system to make > them more proficient. All very good - the Portage manuals are good reading. Once you get the hang of it, maintenance is a snap. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
