begin quote On 31 Mar 2003 20:19:15 -0500 Mike Atamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? > Are we really moving to rpms and if so who is smoking the crack. If > you want rpms use redhat. > > Mike Atamas > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Actually the "moving to rpm" isnt too far-fetched... *cough* ebuild *.ebuild rpm (I'm not sure if that target works currently though, I know it once did) , then move the portage text-stored backend to rpm, by making emerge interface with rpm at install time instead of using its own format... and whamm, you have a rpm based gentoo system with the true flexibility of portage. Its actually quite an interesting idea, since making it this way would indeed make the system more lsb-compliant, (bah!. I hear you say) and would also add a few other "nice" things to the system (What I hear you ask, give me a moment) one of theese would be the ability to generate rpm binaries from portage, and also by using this, you can easily adapt apt-rpm to fetch from a gentoo built binary tree (with a default set of use flags) and we'd have our own flexible system, but with the ability to pre-create packages. It would also be a technical "goodness" since it would provide an integrity-check for how portage works, ie, make sure that there are no "loose ends" in packaging, that just works because of how its done currently. (this is actually quite a common problem in code, unfortunately) of course, that it could be done, doesnt mean that it should be done, nor that it will be done. :) Small side points: rpm dependency hell: wouldnt really be an issue since all deps are correct in portage, and portage would still be used to trace theese. Xlibs in default system.. no thanks. well, This should be a healthy douche of gasoline on the embers of the rpm/april1st joke..... //Spider -- matches, we need matches! -nedit is better than vim and emacs! -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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