Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

[David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:37:14 +0000 (UTC)
Thufir wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
> > Try doing that with
> > RPMs.
> 
> Generally, works fine with YUM.  I expect that yum and portage are
> about the same, and end result differences on dependencies are more
> due redhat/ fedora using multiple "repo's" for liability/policy
> reasons, not due to the superiority of portage over yum.  My two
> cents.
> 
> 
> -Thufir

Mandrake/Mandriva has urpmi which handles RPM dependencies.  Several
times I've updated from one Mandriva release to the next by downloading
the new release's package list then running "urpmi --auto-select".
Once the many packages are downloaded, the upgrade goes very well.

I used YUM for a while and it worked fine, though its dependency
resolving was much slower than urpmi.

Gentoo with portage makes it easier to stay up-to-date with the latest
and greatest.  The existence of /etc/portage/package.* provides lots of
power to customize but adds a significant level of complexity.  urpmi
and YUM are easier to use as both lack the customizability and the
associated complexity.

Just my $0.02.

David
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