From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:44:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762hw1mf3.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2313650.7AYt18jPXV@localhost
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-04 13:47 UTC|newest]
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2011-12-02 14:41 [gentoo-user] can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse LinuxIsOne
2011-12-02 15:00 ` Andrew Tchernoivanov
2011-12-02 17:48 ` LinuxIsOne
2011-12-02 20:02 ` Dale
2011-12-03 0:53 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-03 1:22 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-03 2:17 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-03 2:09 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-03 3:54 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-03 4:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Jack Byer
2011-12-03 4:41 ` Dale
2011-12-13 18:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Jack Byer
2011-12-03 4:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-03 4:36 ` Dale
2011-12-03 10:32 ` Stroller
2011-12-03 13:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-12-04 13:44 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2011-12-04 13:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2011-12-04 16:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-04 16:43 ` Dale
2011-12-04 17:16 ` Alex Schuster
2011-12-04 17:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-04 20:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-04 22:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-04 22:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-04 17:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-04 14:28 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-04 14:38 ` Dale
2011-12-02 17:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
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2011-12-05 16:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Indi
2011-12-05 17:10 ` LinuxIsOne
2011-12-05 17:29 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-05 18:40 ` Fernando Freire
2011-12-05 19:37 ` Alan McKinnon
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2011-12-06 21:35 ` Indi
2011-12-06 23:23 ` Grant Edwards
2011-12-07 1:39 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-08 17:05 ` Paul Hartman
2011-12-10 13:49 ` LinuxIsOne
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2011-12-07 0:15 ` Indi
2011-12-07 9:09 ` Håkon Alstadheim
2011-12-07 10:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-07 10:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-08 6:56 ` LinuxIsOne
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2011-12-06 21:42 ` Indi
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2011-12-05 20:14 ` Indi
2011-12-05 20:20 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-05 23:32 ` Mick
2011-12-06 10:50 ` LinuxIsOne
2011-12-06 13:53 ` Philip Webb
2011-12-06 10:54 ` LinuxIsOne
2011-12-06 11:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-06 22:04 ` ny6p01
2011-12-06 23:21 ` Joshua Murphy
2011-12-06 23:25 ` Grant Edwards
2011-12-07 10:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2011-12-07 15:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-12-07 16:09 ` Dale
2011-12-07 16:44 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-07 19:06 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2011-12-08 6:55 ` LinuxIsOne
2011-12-08 14:31 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-08 6:56 ` LinuxIsOne
2011-12-07 16:43 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-08 14:10 ` James Broadhead
2011-12-08 14:25 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-08 14:33 ` James Broadhead
2011-12-08 6:57 ` [gentoo-user] " LinuxIsOne
2011-12-08 10:58 ` James Broadhead
2011-12-08 13:55 ` LinuxIsOne
2011-12-08 17:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-12-08 18:15 ` Dale
2011-12-08 15:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Mol
2011-12-08 16:11 ` LinuxIsOne
2011-12-08 20:09 ` Mick
2011-12-08 22:11 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-10 13:46 ` LinuxIsOne
2011-12-10 14:32 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-10 16:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-12-10 17:39 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-10 18:52 ` Michael Mol
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2011-12-13 0:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Indi
2011-12-13 1:04 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-13 4:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-12-13 5:27 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-13 12:22 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-13 12:26 ` LinuxIsOne
2011-12-13 14:34 ` Dale
2011-12-14 2:13 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2011-12-14 6:47 ` LinuxIsOne
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