Re: [Nolug] Gentoo?

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 07:48, Scott Harney wrote:
> -ray <ray@ops.selu.edu> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alex wrote:
[snip]
> Performance isn't my reason.
>
> I like the portage system for management. It provides an enourmous amount of
> control over how your system is built. It's also very very easy to add ebuilds.
>
> It's great from a security standpoint as well. patches get into gentoo very
> very quickly because of it's source based nature. That also allows gentoo
> to be pretty bleeding-edge. A project releases new code, most of the time they
> can just rename the ebuild to match the new version. if you're syncing daily
> you'll be up to date right away.
[snip]

No *those* are darned good reasons...

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