William Sutton wrote:
It's sort of inaccurate to say "if you don't want $FOO, don't use $FOO."
For example, if I want to have gaim or grip, I have to install bonobo, no
matter how much I dislike bonobo.
Yeah, I agree here - package dependencies can cause you to install
things you may not want. I guess a better way to word it is just that
Gentoo gives you more choices than most binary distributions will...
I don't think it is a production system. Gentoo is notorious for
releasing changes without doing thorough testing (google for the apache
1.series to apache 2.series breakages), for example.
I can actually attest to problems during upgrades with my Gentoo
system. Actually, some of my problems have to do with my own
incompetence :) So it may not be a great production system, but I think
it can be a useful system nonetheless.
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Randy Barlow
Research Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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