From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RXDEa-0001RR-7O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:40:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C91F621C12A; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 14:39:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980A121C10B for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 14:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbg18 with SMTP id g18so4680906ghb.40 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:38:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2Ftf7J+nwuxVokqHEUpiW4l4H5VJjSsHCyMtpJpBao0=; b=YoXv1Iw2RXNl7fXsDZpmnKMtAQiXv3A4MTNmdjt+wBdB17fSm0iqE1C4mwyZRHaug7 dBBueHEW5+Xtxudm8NeoCAoL0nF+L41BXEE0o9CqRQ0gU5O77Q2SMqsq1HxVDOafyECP e27CGaOESm1CR5H7BItcm/fjkOQAKiacDa1YA= Received: by 10.236.181.202 with SMTP id l50mr6835936yhm.61.1323009501025; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:38:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-128-85.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.128.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 32sm29554269anu.10.2011.12.04.06.38.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:38:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EDB85D5.9010406@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 08:38:13 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse References: <2313650.7AYt18jPXV@localhost> <8762hw1mf3.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <8762hw1mf3.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 51047c0c-2ab0-49d7-b1e8-4b9fdd962d92 X-Archives-Hash: 045309844c29bd1f3b3c81c7248f6220 Harry Putnam wrote: > One point no one has mentioned and I've wondered from time to time > myself is whether one can expect gentoo to continue into the future > for a long while, as compared to the likely hood of opensuse or maybe > debian that has been around a very long time. > > It seemed at one time a year or so ago that gentoo's longevity was > questionable. (Possibly my own mis-perception) > > For the OP, a few posters have mentioned that under gentoo, every > thing is compiled from scratch, but it was not made clear that it > happens again and again at most updates. > > No one has made clear that there is a very HUGE amount of time sunk > into compiling absolutely everything. > > A single update, if one lets updating slip a bit, can literally take > days to compile. And more days to reconfigure so that everything works > again. > People have been claiming Gentoo is dying for years. I seriously doubt that is going to happen anytime soon. I did sort of mention the compile times. Thing is, we don't know what sort of rig the OP has. If he has a really old rig, that could result is some long compile times. If it is a recently bought/built rig, then it may be fast enough to not matter. It seems no matter how much info a post has, there is always something missing. :/ I'm just glad I buy my tea loose. I can read the tea leaves easier. O_O Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!