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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:07:54AM -0400, brett holcomb wrote: |
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> Well, if speed is all they want to worry about <G>. |
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> However, I find that one of the biggest advantages of |
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> Gentoo is no more RPMs!!!! Come to think of it - if I |
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> factor in all the time it takes to get all the |
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> dependencies and files to satisfy them on an RPM based |
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> system then Gentoo is way faster - by days <G>. |
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RPMs are no bad invention. The only problem is that the RPM-based |
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distributions lacked a decent frontend for a long time. Most users where also |
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informed that "rpm -i" was the preferred method to install software. |
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Think of RPM vs Ebuild. How many times do you install an ebuild using "ebuild |
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<ebuildfile> merge"? |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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Save some animals, eat a vegetarian. |
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