<DIV>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 :)</DIV>
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<DIV>LOVED mandrake but got sick of rpm hell and could only ever get maybe 5% of programs working from source.</DIV>
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<DIV>Gentoo takes care of alot of the dependencies and if no ebuild? just install from source (95-98% success :))<BR><BR><B><I>"W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I think of it more as Mandriva/suse/redhat etc putting a more civilised<BR>layer on top of both linux itself, and upstream packaging. Gentoo is a<BR>few levels further down - for example mods to upstream packages are<BR>usually minimal. This civilisation process is that a binary distro does<BR>for its users, with gentoo you do this yourself. The upside of course<BR>is that its easy to change/modify and generally shoot yourself in the<BR>foot, or have a ferrari system instead of a hyundai box depending on<BR>your skill/choices. And not to forget that the learning as you go<BR>process is unrivalled. Underneath linux is linux, its just that gentoo<BR>is closer to that "underneath"!<BR><BR>BillK<BR><BR><BR>On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:25 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:<BR>> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 12:48 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:<BR>...<BR>> <BR>> Using Gentoo for the first time is *almost*
like using Linux for the<BR>> first time - all your reflexes are wrong ;-)<BR>> > <BR>> > BillK<BR>> > <BR>> <BR>_______________________________________________<BR>PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<BR>http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<BR>Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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