What about post-installfest support?

[Andrew Hammond]

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Walter Dnes wrote:
> What's the Suse or Fedora or Debian equivalant of saying
> "emerge mplayer"?

With both SuSE and Fedora, you'd probably install it initially. Debian
uses apt, which is similar in functionality to emerge.

> How many people with Suse or Fedora or Debian have managed to get
> mplayer running? Dependancy dll-hell doesn't exist on Gentoo.

Uh... nor on any other linux box since linux uses elf libraries, not
dlls. The concept of dependancy management is hardly a gentoo
innovation. In terms of package granularity, debian has gentoo beat,
although I'm not entirely convinced that this is a good thing.

The SuSE / Fedora model is closer to a traditional "core" distro system.
This makes them difficult to incrementally upgrade (a strength of highly
granular package systems) but very predictable.

I would suggest that if you're asking these kinds of questions you
perhaps lack the necessary breadth of experience to make a solid
recommendation on distros.

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