How to clean up apt-get

[Al Byers]

> I remember dependency hell.  It's a vague and distant, yet unpleasant 
> memory.
> Thank heaven for Gentoo ;)
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Steve,

How does Gentoo do a better job of this than Debian? Does it use Debian
packages? Is the difference between Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo lie in the
strength of their package archives?

-Al