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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> emerge is along the same lines. "make menuconfig" is the limits of my |
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> expertise. I remember "RPM hell" with Redhat linux, trying to find an |
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> RPM package for a program I wanted, where the developer hadn't linked it |
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> against a bunch of stuff I didn't have. I can take a text-only basic |
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> system, "emerge gimp", and emerge will pull in and build, in the right |
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> order, all the necessary X libraries, GTK, etc, etc. I end up with a |
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> functional TWM "desktop". "emerge bbkeys" emerges blackbox |
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> key-controls... after first emerging blackbox. Try doing that with |
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> RPMs. |
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What makes you think that you can't do that with RPMs now? Seven years |
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ago they were a nightmare but things have moved on since then. The same |
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goes for deb files (can't think of any other major ones off the top of |
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my head). |
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Paul |
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