philosophy of design; request for instruction

[Ian Douglas]

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

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