walt ha scritto: > Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager. > > When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities > should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking. > > Just for fun I tried Ubuntu recently since it's been so popular the > last few years. They built their system on top of a Debian base, > including my nemesis, the Debian package management system :o( > > The Synaptics GUI front end for their package manager is a great deal > easier than the original back end, true, but the basic bad design of > the back end still glares through the eye candy. (Just my opinion.) > > I like gentoo's portage system so-o-o-o much better!
As a user of both Debian-based and Gentoo systems, I am curious to know what do you find so annoying about apt-get. Portage is more flexible probably, but apt-get, with an appropriate frontend like Synaptics, is a piece of cake: in 99% of cases is click & go. And surely it makes more sense to use than rpm, on the command line (let alone the crazy Slackware guys :) ) m.
