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
:-) :-)
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