I thought Gentoo packages where organised by category! If you want a easy
browsing frontend try:
emerge porthole
then you can browse in X by category
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 00:57, wireless wrote:
Ric de France wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:44:49 -0400, wireless <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
wrote:
>>Hello
>>http://linuxgazette.net/106/orr.html
>>
>>Has a nice little article on Gentoo, from a debian user.
>>Interesting to see what folks say about Gentoo...
>
> I was a little confused to read it to find that packages.gentoo.org
> wasn't something he looked for... I'm guessing the author was in a
> rush and didn't read all the lniks on the left hand side of
> gentoo.org.
>
> ...Ric
I think what he was referring to is the way Debian has packages
organized into categories, such as: Admin, Communications, Editors,
Electronics, Games, Graphics, Gnome.....
Is there a way to search packages.gentoo.org by category? keyword?
I often find myself looking at Debian's package classifications to
discover packages, then once I find something interesting or new, I
use emerge -s or emerge -pv to see if it is in portage. I also
recently used the new debian installer to install a sarge(testing) web
server for a friend. It was a breeze with scsi disks and including
apache2, php4, postgressql....Debian Installer is a very sweet and
easy install; 5 months ago it was a disaster. I recommend it(DI) for
newbies, but recommend Gentoo, for the die-hards and wannabies....
I agree with the author on one point. If you want to get the latest,
and see the details of the dependencies and options, and build from
sources, nothing comes close to Gentoo....
It is nice to have 2 really cool open source linux distros.... YMMV
James
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