Re: philosophy of design; request for instruction
Ian Douglas <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.users.pim |
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| Organization | Zero 2 Infinity |
| Message-ID | <2116029.vFx2qVVIhK@trooper> |
On Tuesday, 09 June 2020 15:38:18 SAST test wrote: > It depends on what you consider "robust". My experience is that Gentoos > package management is a nightmare, giving you mysterious error messages > with every update that are impossible to understand and finally leaves you > unable to fix all the dependency problems it's running into because they > are not fixable. After a short while, you run into a dependency loop in > that you need to update stuff which needs to be updated before you can > update, and at point, you have to reinstall from scratch. YMMV, but I've been running Gentoo on assorted boxes since 2005 and have never had to re-install. Portage usually tells you what the problem is if there are dependency issues, and the forums help when you get stuck. Cheers, Ian -- [email protected] http://www.zti.co.za Zero 2 Infinity - The net.works Phone +27-21-975-7273