[luau] Gentoo emerge vs Debian apt-get

[MonMotha]

Dustin Cross wrote:
> #apt-get -u upgrade

> #emerge -e world

I think you possibly mean -u here.  -e will cause a rebuild of just about 
everything on the system.

> 
> Who has used both and which do people prefer for keeping a server up-to-
> date for security patches and such.  I have never used either of these
> distros, but I am thinking of using one for the upgrade of my server from
> SuSE 7.3.  I want something easy to keep up-to-date.  The server is a web,
> SquirrelMail, and Samba server.
> 
> Mahalo,
> Dusty

I certainly prefer Debian over Gentoo for most things.  Gentoo was simply "too 
broken" (it seemed to be broken multiple times daily in different ways).  On the 
upside, it was usually easier to "unbreak" than Debian unstable is (though 
obviously you wouldn't be using that on a production system).

Debian has the benefit that you don't have to compile everything from scratch 
(which can be a HUGE timesaver), but the downside is that if you don't like the 
compile-time options set by the package maintainer (such as Mozilla being linked 
against GTK, which tends to be rather unstable), you have to create your own 
packages rather than just adjusting USE flags.

--MonMotha