portage vs yum

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Jun 27 22:46:42 UTC 2007


Olivier Galibert <galibert <at> pobox.com> writes:
> Because you often do not want to do it immediatly after the specific
> update that changed the library.

You want broken apps instead?!

> The main advantage of gentoo over fedora is the continuous upgrade
> path.  You do not need to reinstall everything from scratch every 6
> months just to keep up-to-date.

You don't need to do that with Fedora either, that's what Anaconda's upgrade 
mode is for. You can even upgrade with yum or apt (not really supported 
though).

        Kevin Kofler




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