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On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 08:48:53PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> Of course, choice is important. So whoever thinks RPMs are good for Gentoo |
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> can go ahead and modify Portage/emerge to support them. But people who still |
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> think actually compiling a package with the correct optimizations for you CPU |
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> is best <gasp> shouldn't be branded non-standard. (Or non-mainstream <gasp>). |
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Two notes: it's already possible to Gentoo Linux to generate RPMs instead of |
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.tbz2 files. I'm not really interested in this functionality but it's there. |
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The other thing is that the LSB requires that it's possible to *install* an |
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RPM3 package under Gentoo Linux, which of course it is. It doesn't mean you |
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need to use it as your default packaging format (that would be scary). I don't |
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like the LSB as much as the FHS, but we're going to try to be as compliant with |
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it as we can without compromising the quality and design philosophy of Gentoo |
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Linux. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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