From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I6PDj-0007hX-SW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:10:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l65B8hJK031645; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:08:43 GMT Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l65B4QCL026891 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:04:26 GMT Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ACC27BD05 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 07:04:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 07:04:20 -0400 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return) Message-ID: <20070705070420.6266f53f@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: References: <49bf44f10707030907jaa9f524maef27beb2a7c9df@mail.gmail.com> <59f9c5160707040133m46b6b592obcde11d2c1e0083d@mail.gmail.com> <20070705014010.GA26335@waltdnes.org> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: da17ce3e-62a3-48e7-9dce-3811e716b9c0 X-Archives-Hash: 753ed3a88e90d116a4776992b2d17ec0 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list