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		blasdel on Sept 29, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Re: Making Debian Responsible For Its Actions Gentoo Portage is much better technically. It needs to be, because it uses a pure rolling-release model with no package freezes. Arch Linux has a similar model, but they did it more conservatively to make binary packages useful.

cmsj on Sept 29, 2010 [–]

IMHO it's difficult to say "better technically" - for one thing portage is much looser than dpkg. Depending on your goals that may be better or scarier! ;)

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