I hope it's April fools <G>!
> I notice in the newsletter that Gentoo will move to the RPM format due to > the idiots at LSB. That raises some questions. > > 1. Is Gentoo essentially going to become another RPM distro where we are > condemmed to using RPM to manage packages and fight all the dependencies? > > 2. Does this mean the neat database, etc. will be gone and we will have > the same problem in Gentoo we have in RH, Caldera, etc. - Play the game of > find the dependencies. > > 3. Will any of the ability to know what's installed and track it remain? > > If this is true this is a big minus for Gentoo. One reason for adopting > Gentoo was to get away from RPM nonsense and the mess trying to maintain a > system. Maybe back to RH or one of the other distros. > > I guess I could always run apt-get! -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
