Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

[Kent Fredric]

On 7/5/07, Paul Waring <paul@×××.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   emerge is along the same lines.  "make menuconfig" is the limits of my
> > expertise.  I remember "RPM hell" with Redhat linux, trying to find an
> > RPM package for a program I wanted, where the developer hadn't linked it
> > against a bunch of stuff I didn't have.  I can take a text-only basic
> > system, "emerge gimp", and emerge will pull in and build, in the right
> > order, all the necessary X libraries, GTK, etc, etc.  I end up with a
> > functional TWM "desktop".  "emerge bbkeys" emerges blackbox
> > key-controls... after first emerging blackbox.  Try doing that with
> > RPMs.
>
> What makes you think that you can't do that with RPMs now? Seven years
> ago they were a nightmare but things have moved on since then. The same
> goes for deb files (can't think of any other major ones off the top of
> my head).
>
> Paul
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* Binary Dependency
* No USE
* Binary Dependency Breaks = No solution other than choose which of
the 2 programs you want to lose.
* Forceful ignorance of binary dependencies triggers stupid stuff like
spontaneous removal of all of libc.

( i think thats the sort of headaches he was referring to with rpm-hell )

Conclusion on binary based distros:
    wait for upstream to fix.
Conclusion on source based distros:
    you can fix it yourself, and today.

I'd rather be able to have breakages I can work around  ;)

So not only is gentoo healthy, imo, its a very healthy test-bed for
the whole world of OSS.

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