It's a April Fool Joke - got some of us!
> Xfree part of the base? RPM's this sounds like a bunch of BS to me. > > Lack of USE features? This really sucks. > > I say to hell with LSB if it means getting rid of USE and making xfree part > of the base. > > Sounds like were headed to dependancy hell. > > Robert > > On Monday 31 March 2003 05:18 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > 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
