Re: [MLUG] What Linux Distro Do You Prefer?

[Nathan Atkinson <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

As Levy said, Gentoo's portage is very similar to FreeBSD ports.  If I 
want to install a program, say KDE, all I would have to do is "emerge 
kde" and portage would take care of downloading all the dependencies and 
compiling everything in the proper order.  If I want to uninstall 
something all I have to do is "emerge -c kde" and it would remove KDE, 
unfortunately it doesn't remove all of the dependencies because there 
could be other packages that rely on them.

Nathan A.

Nimrod Levy wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:12am, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
>> If you compile everything yourself, don't you miss out on the package
>> management system?  I would think you'd have to install the packages to
>> get that benefit.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> 
> Depends on the build system.  I use FreeBSD and install everything 
> through the ports collection.  I can type 'make && make install' and 
> cause the source to be downloaded, patched if necessary, built, 
> installed and registered as a package.  Packages can be easily installed 
> and uninstalled.
> 
> <flame-bait>
> Gentoo really wants to be FreeBSD ports. ;)
> </flame-bait>
> -- 
> Nimrod
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