Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
by eru on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:31AM
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> I think this more due to the fact I ran Arch first and you then Gentoo first, rather than any real difference between them.
I can believe that.
> Gentoo is more stable than Arch by default, though. It's not actually a bleeding edge distro, but you can choose to run it that way if you wish. Gentoo is about choice.
I actually had way more trouble with stuff breaking with Ubuntu. That's because every six months, when I did the distro upgrade, lots of stuff broke at once and it was hard to do root cause analysis.
With a rolling distribution, it's usually only one thing breaking at a time.
Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
by johnisgood on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @07:23AM
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Ubuntu et al. are notorious for breaking stuff. If you want to remove a package, it sometimes want to delete your Linux kernel. :|
Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
by johnisgood on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @07:22AM
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I have used Gentoo and Arch. I still favor Arch, however. I like pacman (C), I don't like Portage (Python).
I found Arch Linux to be more stable than Gentoo, but that is just my own experience.
Gentoo is more stable than Arch by default, though. It's not actually a bleeding edge distro, but you can choose to run it that way if you wish. Gentoo is about choice.