Comments on: Why I (still) like Gentoo http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/10/why-i-still-like-gentoo/ Stay curious! Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:14:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Stephan Sokolow http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/10/why-i-still-like-gentoo/#comment-14227 Stephan Sokolow Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:37:42 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/10/why-i-still-like-gentoo/#comment-14227 Re: John I agree. I just wish I had time to help get g-pypi (the Python equivalent to g-cpan) debugged and polished. Re: John

I agree. I just wish I had time to help get g-pypi (the Python equivalent to g-cpan) debugged and polished.

]]> By: John http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/10/why-i-still-like-gentoo/#comment-2818 John Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:48:16 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/10/why-i-still-like-gentoo/#comment-2818 <p>One more thing to like about Gentoo and Portage - g-cpan. It creates ebuilds on the fly for Perl CPAN modules so you can manage them through Portage. I've been playing with it and while there are still a couple of bugs (a big one is that if a dependency is already in Portage, the most recent version is marked as required rather than the most recent unmasked, or even better the version the CPAN package actually specifies, so sometimes you have to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" for emerge to run. But this is somewhat tempered by the fact that usually the packages already in Portage are no higher what would be installed if you did it through CPAN anyway so you aren't risking anything. Also this bug is marked as fixed in next rev), but being able to know what modules you have installed and being able to cleanly uninstall them is tremendous. It is a two step process, but I think it is great!</p> One more thing to like about Gentoo and Portage - g-cpan. It creates ebuilds on the fly for Perl CPAN modules so you can manage them through Portage. I’ve been playing with it and while there are still a couple of bugs (a big one is that if a dependency is already in Portage, the most recent version is marked as required rather than the most recent unmasked, or even better the version the CPAN package actually specifies, so sometimes you have to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=”~x86″ for emerge to run. But this is somewhat tempered by the fact that usually the packages already in Portage are no higher what would be installed if you did it through CPAN anyway so you aren’t risking anything. Also this bug is marked as fixed in next rev), but being able to know what modules you have installed and being able to cleanly uninstall them is tremendous. It is a two step process, but I think it is great!

]]> By: David Shrewsbury http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/10/why-i-still-like-gentoo/#comment-2766 David Shrewsbury Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:20:25 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/10/why-i-still-like-gentoo/#comment-2766 <p>It's funny, but I switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu for the same reasons. Gentoo is very powerful and has many features that I like, but at some point, my mindset changed to just wanting something that was very easy and just worked, so I switched to Ubuntu. They each have their pluses and minuses, but both are definitely targeted to different audiences.</p> It’s funny, but I switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu for the same reasons. Gentoo is very powerful and has many features that I like, but at some point, my mindset changed to just wanting something that was very easy and just worked, so I switched to Ubuntu. They each have their pluses and minuses, but both are definitely targeted to different audiences.

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