Re: [Nolug] Gentoo?

I've never had a problem with anything breaking. Portage keeps track of which
dependencies (and their versions) are needed for each package, so they are
not deleted when a new version appears that would require a new lib. Also,
when removing packages, the lib is not deleted since it is needed by a
program.

It's surprisingly smooth.

ml

On Thursday 31 July 2003 03:50 am, Joey Kelly wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >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.
>
> That brings up an important question: how often do things break? I don't
> know how many times I've been in the middle of a large compile (KDE for
> example) on NetBSD and something breaks in the middle, for instance one
> little dependency that has the wrong version or build date, or a bad
> makefile, and the compile stops until I either A). waited a few days for
> some packager to fix his stuff, or B). went and grabbed the binary and
> pkg_added it.
>
> <snip>

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