[ale] How do people deal with RHEL?

[Jeff Hubbs]

It sounds to me like you may be happier working with Gentoo, where 1) 
the distribution itself is versionless; 2) tens of thousands of packages 
are managed in a single package management system; 3) you only need deal 
with "other repositories" (we call them "overlays") for extreme outliers 
although the ability to compile from upstream source is always there.

The timespan between when package source is available from upstream and 
the first appearance of an ebuild in Gentoo Portage (albeit one that's 
still masked for testing - still usable by a reference in one of 
Portage's masking control files) can be pretty short - days, even.

Having worked with Gentoo now for about ten years, I find RHEL/CentOS 
very limited...like I found some old CD distro in someone's junk box.  I 
was surprised to find that brand new CentOS had a two-year-old CUPS...

- Jeff

On 3/24/11 3:19 PM, James Sumners wrote:
> Where? All I have read is people telling me to stop using an old
> version, or that because _they_ don't use the package then Red Hat
> shouldn't include it, or people answering a question that wasn't even
> asked ("how do I install this when it isn't in the main repo?").
>
> Well that's not entirely true. You did state the same frustration with
> other distributions and that you just give up and look for a third
> party repo when you get frustrated.
>
> I wasn't really trying to start a thread where I get help
> administering the system. I was venting frustration, and thought maybe
> some others would join in with their own
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Don Lachlan
> <ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org>  wrote:
>> And we told you how we work in it,
>
>