[Techtalk] Debian -> Gentoo

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It wouldn't really be that easy, but it is easy. You would need to do a
fresh gentoo install which would be much cleaner, just dont delete your
old install untill you are sure you have all your config files and
everything that you will need.

As far as the latest dev packages ... gentoo has ports for quite a few
cvs packages, which will download the latest cvs build and build it.
Also if you want a package that is newer than what is in portage you can
roll your own ebuild very easily, plus the gentoo distro and packaging
are very well documented and have a great community backing that up. I
switched from debian to gentoo over a year ago and havent looked back
since, I love it!

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:08:27AM +1100, Ricky Buchanan wrote:
> 
> Appologies in advance if I already asked this.  Brainscramble :\
> 
> 
> I have a Debian system sync'd to the current "unstable" distribution.
> 
> Since reading more and more about Gentoo I am thinking more and more I'd
> love to run it.  There are several important programs (Mutt and TF, to
> name two) which I need to manually download and compile because I need
> different compilation options than Debian defaults too (eg in Mutt I
> need --enable-buffy-size but the maintainer doesn't like it - I asked
> :\) and others where I like to run the most up to date dev version but
> only the stable version is packaged.
> 
> I know gentoo fixes the first problem, but does it fix the second?
> 
> 
> Also, is there any way to "side-grade" my running system from Debian to
> Gentoo without actually delting everything and starting from scratch?
> Really I just want to get rid of apt, swap in Emerge, change whatever is
> inecessary and *boom*.  But I imagine it's not that simple.
> 
> Does anybody here even RUN gentoo and if so would they be willing to
> talk to me about it?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ricky
> 
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