How exactly does 64-bit linux work?

[Nothinman]

What I like about Gentoo is that it isn't a source package I have to install myself, Gentoo just takes it a step further and compiles and installs it for me saving me the headache of having to setup DB's stupid tcpserver package and everything else required to get qmail working properly and the ebuild includes the approriate startup scripts which I have seen in no other package. I like that the Gentoo package maintainers take the time to make it trouble free by writing the ebuilds to handle the excentricies of the programs. I like that they have automated updating of conf files after rebuilding or building new versions. Gentoo is about simplicity to me and it's level of automation and cutting edge is not something I have seen in any of the other distributions I have played with.

The Debian packages do the same thing with only 2 extra steps because the qmail and tcpserver (ucspi-tcp in Debian) are seperate packages.

Honestly it sounds like you havn't played with Debian much, the level of automation in Debian is atleast the same if not more than what is in Gentoo and there's a lot more packages. Part of that added automation is autobuilding for all supported architectures which isn't something that Gentoo needs just yet, but it still counts IMO.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: rahvin

Originally posted by: drag
Nobody called you a idiot, we are just having a discussion.

And I don't know how experianced you are, but I can guess.

Your implications of my skill level are nothing more than a veiled attempt at insult so get over it.

your the one that brought it up, you said I didn't know what your experiance level was, and I said I have a guess. If I wanted to insult you I wouldn't beat around the bush with it. I would just call you a moron, I've done it to others who deserved it. Your being too sensitive. Why would I want to keep my insults a secret?

Gentoo is cutting edge, which is nice. Portage is slow, and apt-get is generally much easier to deal with when you get right down to it.

You were saying that the 733t'ists in Debian didn't want to deal with "non-free" Qmail, and your obviously mistaken. There are plenty of packages that deal with qmail and other e-mail systems that are, created by, distributed by, AND supported by Debian.

Qmail is definately supported by Debian. By default it may not include it, but that's due to the nature of the software and the goals of Debian itself, you just have to add non-free sources from one of Debian's many mirrors and you have access to all the qmail you could probably ever want.

You said that portage does dependancy checking when uninstalling upgraded packages,( which I am not sure exactly what you ment), but for the fact of the matter you can easily uninstall vital packages by mistake and break many things easily.