tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7849507270164967036.post5805257161053051174..comments2024-03-29T11:56:53.502+01:00Comments on the dilfridge blog: Gentoo in c't magazineAndreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12314847423280010909noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7849507270164967036.post-77041961681210026362012-07-18T21:42:06.078+02:002012-07-18T21:42:06.078+02:00Congratulations Andreas.
You were mentioned in th...Congratulations Andreas.<br /><br />You were mentioned in the Headline of this article, so I guess you have worked on it as co author, right?<br /><br />Fine to see once more a founded article about Gentoo in a PC Magazine, which are very rare.<br />Sadly there was a big lapse from my point of view and I asked myself how could it be, or how big was your influence in it.<br /><br />The article mentioned that the Gentoo repository has about 10.000 packages, but its actually 15685!<br />That's an aberration of more than one-third and that although the article refers at its end [No.3], to our http://packages.gentoo.org site, which shows the right number if you only click on the categories Link to the right.<br /><br />What kind of understatement, especially cause lots of Debian Guys I know, told me very often that its one of the big advantages of this distri, the amount of about 30.000 of packages.<br /><br />By the way, during my research of a Gentoo lecture, I gave one Year ago in my LUG, I found out that there exist a counting ratio between debian binary packages and our source packages of 2:1.<br /><br />In practice does it mean, that our amount of packages is at least as high as debian's.<br />I guess you know why, otherwise it takes too much space to explain it here.<br /><br />One more mistake I found in the formulation that it takes only the addition of ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=”~amd64” to the /etc/make.conf to switch from a stable to a testing installation, but that's only true if you're using the amd64 architecture before, but this precondition isn't mentioned anymore. <br />So this is not true for a x86 or a ppc architecture for example ;-) <br />A true and more generic formulation had reduced it to the addition of only the ~ (tilde sign) before the existing architecture definition, if its exist already in the make.conf ;-)<br />Ok, call me a nitpicker, but hey, I'm a German engineer as you and were known for our precision, doesn't we.<br /><br />Most of the other descriptions and named tools are a question of taste and favoritism of the author and are discuss-able as everything.<br />Nevertheless a well formed article, good job done, thumbs up from my side.<br />I wish Gentoo is more often mentioned into PC-Magazine articles.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18380947482975644974noreply@blogger.com