[ale] The bad thing about RPMs

[Charles Marcus]

You might wanna take a look at Gentoo (www.gentoo.org) - it is very similar
to LFS, but has a very cool installer (portage), which appears to have all
of the advantages of apt-get with some additional bells and whistles.

The best thing about it is every package that is installed is built from
sources, optimized for your specific system - and I mean everything.

Well worth checking out.

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Krumwiede [mailto:krum at smyrnacable.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:12 PM
> To: ALE List
> Subject: Re: [ale] The bad thing about RPMs
>
>
> Stuffed Crust writes:
> > One obvious flaw in your argument.  Using your reasoning,
> we'd end up
> > with "...an RPM built on, say, Mandrake 13 could be installed on
> > Mandrake 12 without upgrading a dozen other packages."
>
> That's why I said, keep it stable until the next major
> version.  Or at least
> for several minor versions.  Only update for major bugfixes
> and security
> issues.
>
>
> > Come on, if you want to not upgrade a dozen other packages, then why
> > don't you get a RPM built against Mandrake 8.0 instead of 8.1?   Or
> > hell, get the SRPM and rebuild it yourself.
>
> Exactly... or to take it even further, build the whole system
> from source,
> which is what I'm doing.  It's not that this is particularly
> difficult;
> anyone can follow the directions in the LFS book.  My point
> is that it's not
> something most people are willing to undertake.  RPMs are
> supposed to make
> things easy, and they aren't living up to this promise because of the
> version conflicts.
>
> Krum
>
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