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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:59:52
Message-Id: 45FA860B.5000604@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems by darren kirby
1 darren kirby wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > Exactly. LSBs insistence on using RPM as the "One True Package Manager" seems
5 > incredibly daft to me. It was RPM-hell that steered me towards Gentoo all
6 > those years ago in the first place. I cannot put into words how much I loathe
7 > RPM.
8 >
9 > Seems to me if Gentoo wholesale adopted the LSB then it would be little more
10 > than another Redhat/SuSe clone no? And nobody here wants that, do they?
11 >
12 > Portage (or the tree as Ciaran puts it) is _still_ the chief reason I use
13 > Gentoo, and I rather think it will always be...
14 >
15 > just another Gentoo luser,
16 > -d
17 >
18
19 You too huh? I left Mandrake because the upgrades were a mess to say
20 the least. They were also slow to come out. I hope Gentoo will get all
21 this mess straightened out because I have no clue what I would have to
22 move too.
23
24 Dale
25 :-) :-) :-)
26
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28 www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967