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[Garrett Klein]

I found Gentoo slowly corrupts itself over time, with the portage cache 
and what not. I also had a strange udev problem. With Arch, I get the 
minimalism of Gentoo with x86_64-optimized packages, with the ability to 
rebuild anything from source if desired. Arch's rc.conf system is also 
simpler than Gentoo's system V style init scripts, and creating one's 
own packages is so much simpler with makepkg than with portage.

Garrett

On 3/14/2010 3:49 AM, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi Trev,
>
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:26:10AM -0500, trev.saunders at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Case 1:
>> This is mostly servers, but also personal machines for other people
>> and such where I want to do as little maintanance as posible.  I also
>> want a stable basic system that general is fairly small.  FOr these
>> system I use debian either stable or testing depending on exact needs.
>
> Agreed. I have made the same decision for the same reasons recently.
>
>> So I'm curious what people like about arch especially over gentoo?
>
> Sorry, I can't say, I haven't had a gentoo system running here. My
> distro path has been limited, beginning with Slackware, from there to
> Debian, and now to Arch. As with all Linux systems, sources are readily
> available, and recompiles are easily done. Others here will have more
> helpful observations comparing Arch and Gentoo, I think.
>
> Chuck
>
>