Re: portage vs yum

[Kelly <lightsolphoenix gmail com>]

On Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:14 am Thufir wrote:
>
> The drawback to fedora is, to my mind, rpm and yum.  portage is
> superior.  it's also capable, as sabayon has demonstrated, of
> distributing binaries.

Portage, superior?  Um, no.

I ran Sabayon once.  Couldn't update the base system to the latest versions of 
the programs because the system had almost no dependency resolution at all, 
and I actually had to manually update each package, one at a time, to get it 
to update properly.  If I just tried updating like in Fedora, the system 
would die after the first three or four packages, reporting a missing 
dependency the system seemed incapable of doing itself.

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