On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:06:58PM -0800, Mark Bigler wrote: > Justin, > > Statements beyond "I don't like the RPM system," that add something > like "because each distro has a different incompatible set" or "because > dependencies are handled so poorly" would be good. You can help us to > hone our sense of what people find odd, madding, stupid, etc., when > using non-mainstream OS environments day to day. Maybe there are ways > around some of these problems that are more generally applicable than > starting to build a whole new distribution.
IMO, needing a package manager to install the base system is stupid. Much easier to just: # cd / && tar zxpvf base30.tgz && tar zxpvf etc30.tgz It's fast, one doesn't get screwed out of having a working system because of package manager mistakes/bugs, and single floppy installation is possible because there's no package manager bloat. There's also little chance of "binary mismatches" when following "unstable" distributions, since it's all in one "package". -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
