[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian

[Ralph Green, Jr.]

Howdy,
  Please take this as a real question about Gentoo.  I am not attacking
it.  I just want to see if the problem I had is still there.

  About 2 years ago, I set up a Gentoo system and kept it going for
about 3 months.  I don't remember the exact term, but the problem I had
was that every time I went to do updates, a number of packages were
embargoed, or something like that.  They were mark as not being ready
for upgrade and the problem always cascaded to dependent packages.  I
will say the machine (a Celeron 800 on a 815 chipset) ran faster on
Gentoo than how I set it up before that.  I decided it was not worth the
hassle of trying to figure out those embargoed(or whatever it was
called) portages each time I updated.

 Has this gotten any better?
Good day,
Ralph

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 22:13 -0500, Spicerun wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> 
> > I settled on Gentoo and it has pretty much solved the library issues, 
> > but does require considerable maintenance because of the bleeding edge 
> > nature of the distro, and has a fairly steep learning curve to install 
> > and administer the system.