On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Victor Odhner wrote:

> ... while we're talking about Gentoo ...
> If I wanted to switch from Red Hat 8 to Gentoo,
> how hard would that be?  Would I want to just
> back up my data, wipe out the system and start
> over?
>
> I've gotten impatient with my inability to
> install *anything* under Red Hat without hitting
> some sort of dependency problem.  Would Gentoo
> be any better?

I am not sure if your question is about patience (faster installations) or
better dependencies.

Gentoo will probably still be slower (since it is a build-from-source
system), which may or may not be more nerve-racking.

I like using the build-from-source system called pkgsrc. It also builds
binary packages and provides binary package administration tools which
make it quick and easy on systems where I don't want to (or don't have
time to)  build from source

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/