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[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Duane Attaway <dattaway at dattaway.org>:

> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > Quoting Jason Clinton <clintonj at umkc.edu>:

> > > JEdit ... bluefish ... quanta ... Kate
 
> > How about some relative merits?  One of the problems often cited about
> > major linux distros is that they throw all of these different tools for
> > the same job at you, and your only option is to spend hours learning
> > one, then hours learning another, then another, then choose.  I mean,
> > anybody can do a search on Freshmeat and come up with a list of
> > programs, but which is worth spending the time learning?
 
> ... gentoo.  

I knew that paragraph was going to draw a comment from the gentoo crowd on this 
list.  If nothing else, gentoo has avoided the "install everything including 
the kitchen sink" paradigm.

Mandrake/KDE's KPackage offers a nice ability to browse packages with 
descriptions and other information.  RPM -qi offers similar information on the 
command line.   The problem with KPackage is that the database is limited to 
the install CD's and a VERY DISFUNCTIONAL mirror catalog system.  9 out of 10 
tries I have not been able to pull a package update and it's required 
dependencies from the mirrors, and even if the dependencies are available on 
the CD's it will sometimes fail.

Gentoo succeeds because it limits itself to what works - a pretty good plan.

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