Does anybody know if running emerge on Yoper will break the system? Specifically emerge is telling to emerge a new version of something (can't remember right now, will post details later) that depends on a long list of items. If I go through with it will it totally hose my system? Has anyone tried using emerge on Yoper succesfully or otherwise?

Also, I tried to install Yoper from the CD to a laptop but was getting so many AccessSeek errors on the cd-rom drive that the installation totally failed. So I went with the only other distro I had, Red Hat. Is there a way to "yoperize" this distro? I tried changing the sources.list file to reflect yoper server, and the list gets updated, but when I try apt-get upgrade, I get a whole bunch of conflicts, so the the process fails.

(Background: I installed Yoper on my desktop because I wanted to give it a try. I love the speed, but I miss emerge. I've converted my mother and her laptop to Linux, as well as many of my friends, but RedHat is a royal pain. I like Yoper better and would like her to use this instead of RedHat. I prefer Gentoo, but that would totally freak her out, being the newbie that she is, yoper would be ideal. I'm open to suggestions BTW.)

Thanks.
-Arturo

You might want to look at ubuntu and mepis. Both are debian based and very easy to run.

Ubuntu runs gnome and mepis kde.

I found it easy to add kde to ubuntu but impossible to get gnome going in mepis, although I am sure that it can be done, just not by a newbie like me!

zoey

Huh, I'll check them out. I assume they are complete Linux distros. Thanks!

Hi folks,

I've started a project on Sourceforge which addresses this very issue. It takes some work, and I have automated as much of it as possible. Please check it out at:
EmergeAptSync

Mike