Difference: portage, urpmi, apt, port

Supermule · Guru Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 510 Location: /denmark/fyn

Hi,

Just wondering...whats the difference (for the everday user) between:

1. Emerge (Gentoo)
2. Urpmi (Mandrake)
3. Apt (Debian)
4. Ports (*BSD)

As it seems that all solutions handles dependancies and stuff...all single command installations.

Why's one better than the other?

/Supermule

sgaap · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:00 am Post subject:

I use emerge instead of apt beause portage has som much more new stuff than debian, and those new program actually work (i installed gnome 2 for debian from experimental and it simply didnt work 100% , while building it in gentoo produced a nice working gnome desktop)

when I used urpmi some time ago it was crap, maybe it does work today..
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piggie · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:06 am Post subject:

urmpi uses rpm's... nuff said :-/

I had the same experience with debian... apt is good, but gentoo is so much more up to date.

Supermule · Guru Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 510 Location: /denmark/fyn

Ok, but what about Ports?

To mee that seems interesting....(Lets discard that its not linux for a moment)

/Supermule