> > I, too, have a general aversion to RPM, but the modern distros like SUSE > > and Red Hat do a fine job of doing dependancy checking (a la portage) and > > relieving the less savy user from the intricacies of RPM. The one thing > > they don't have is the tremendously broad availability of standard > > packages (a la > > portage). Hunting down a suitable RPM package is now the worst aspect of > > an
I don't think so, look at mandrake cooker and you will notice, that they have at least as many apps in rpm form as gentoo ebuilds. I have never counted them, but I thought they even have more rpms for apps than gentoo, at least I have seen rpms there for apps that gentoo still doesn't have. So that doesn't count. I have used rpm distros for years, but portage was not the reason for me to switch to gentoo. Mandrake for example has an extraordinary rpm system "urpmi" with some scripting skills you can even use it to download srpms and compile everything from source, it is better that apt-get. But most people think rpm can't do much more than install and deinstall packages. > > RPM based system. Of course, in you install all the -dev packages, you > > can always just build from source. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
