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Originally posted by elanthis View PostWant to spend less time working for your computer and more time out with your girlfriend? USE="-gentoo"
Seriously, it's not as bad as you make it sound. Most people who try gentoo don't get further than the installation, which can take days for a novice. But upgrading software costs CPU time, not my time. I can do it as a background job or I can do it overnight (emerge -uDN world && shutdown -h now), doesn't cost time for me.
And when I need a custom patch in some package, some inofficial git version or something, gentoo actually makes it easier to get it done in a clean and reliable way, thus saving my time.
Oh, and installation? I haven't reinstalled gentoo in years, even though every bit of hardware changed at some point. cp -a /mnt/oldroot /mnt/newroot, reconfigure & install kernel, reinstall grub, modify /etc/fstab, working system. Change use flags and some configuration files, do system upgrade overnight, done. Even my notebook started out as a clone of my workstation.
Unless you start from scratch, installing gentoo doesn't take much longer than installing ubuntu. It's just less clicking in a fancy GUI installer and more knowing what you're doing.
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Originally posted by crazycheese View Post- neither emerge, nor paludis recompile EVERYTHING. They automatically recompile only what is needed to be recompiled. It is also not necessary a foreground process. Its true, that sometimes you need to call revdep to rebuild everything depending upon changed package, and you will be informed to do so. Again with Ubuntu, segfaults were not uncommon.
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