Before I first ran emerge in 2007, I thought from all the “you compile” talk, that you ran a lot of make install (and chasing down dependencies manually) to do Gentoo. Didn’t realise it was easier1 than many other distros to install packages. I thought it would necessitate a lot more getting up to my elbows in source code, hands on with compiling. Nope [not if you don’t want to]. Convenient easy-peasy.
1 At least, in so far as emerge is shorter to type (than e.g. apt-get install or pacman -S)
True.
Before I first ran emerge in 2007, I thought from all the “you compile” talk, that you ran a lot of
make install(and chasing down dependencies manually) to do Gentoo. Didn’t realise it was easier1 than many other distros to install packages. I thought it would necessitate a lot more getting up to my elbows in source code, hands on with compiling. Nope [not if you don’t want to]. Convenient easy-peasy.1 At least, in so far as
emergeis shorter to type (than e.g.apt-get installorpacman -S)