[plug] Help with Gentoo rc scripts wanted

[WolfBite]

one of the things I find REAL funny is how alot of them whine for an ebuild (probably the same ones that would whine for an rpm :)
 
LOVED mandrake but got sick of rpm hell and could only ever get maybe 5% of programs working from source.
 
Gentoo takes care of alot of the dependencies and if no ebuild? just install from source (95-98% success :))

"W.Kenworthy" <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
I think of it more as Mandriva/suse/redhat etc putting a more civilised
layer on top of both linux itself, and upstream packaging. Gentoo is a
few levels further down - for example mods to upstream packages are
usually minimal. This civilisation process is that a binary distro does
for its users, with gentoo you do this yourself. The upside of course
is that its easy to change/modify and generally shoot yourself in the
foot, or have a ferrari system instead of a hyundai box depending on
your skill/choices. And not to forget that the learning as you go
process is unrivalled. Underneath linux is linux, its just that gentoo
is closer to that "underneath"!

BillK


On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:25 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 12:48 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
...
> 
> Using Gentoo for the first time is *almost* like using Linux for the
> first time - all your reflexes are wrong ;-)
> > 
> > BillK
> > 
> 
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