On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 09:38, Evan McNabb wrote: > I'll agree that the benchmarks on Gentoo aren't as good as you might > think. I have noticed though that conflicting packages aren't as a big > of a problem on Gentoo. When you make an RPM you have to tell it what > the dependencies are, and they usually are package level based. > Application X depends on version X of glibc, on version X of a driver, > etc. When you compile a program through make (through autoconf) it will > find out exactly what is on your system and builds the package around > it. I've noticed much less headache with portage than RPM and other > packaging systems.
The biggest advantage I see from gentoo is the ability to configure the packages you want to install. Don't like the dependency on package Z? Just tell it to configure the package without that feature. While you can sometimes do that on RPMs if they are designed right, it's a pain to figure out and not obvious how to do it (from src.rpm). Most people (myself included) just live with redhat's packages that depend on a bunch of other packages to provide some optional features that we don't use. Kind of the Microsoft way. :) Michael > > But, once again, it all comes down to personal preference. And if you > think that "every distro sucks", you have the right to make your own, > thanks to the good ol' GPL. :-) > > -Evan -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
