Gentoo Linux Rethinks Package Management System

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Gentoo Linux Rethinks Package Management System

Posted by timothy on Monday March 31, 2003 @04:33PM from the after-all-rpm-is-better dept.

YOU ARE SO FIRED! writes "In an effort to conform to the LSB standards, Gentoo Linux will be adopting RPM as the standard form of package management in portage 2.1. More information can be found in the Gentoo weekly newsletter. I'd surely be fired if I would've proposed such an idea!"

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First Post! by bc90021 · 2003-03-31 16:34 · Score: 2, Funny

And a Happy April to everyone!! :)

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I'm so fired?! by mewsenews · 2003-03-31 16:35 · Score: 1, Funny

You can't fire me! I QUIT!
Woo Hoo! by 0x7F · 2003-03-31 16:35 · Score: 3, Funny

At last, we Debian users have a legitimate reason to snub Gentoo.

Just kidding! Happy April Fools' Day everybody.
Heh.. I was pissed for a second. by R-2-RO · 2003-03-31 16:37 · Score: 5, Funny

I was pissed.. Until I realized the GWN is dated April 1.. Haha... damn.. had me for a few seconds there.. Bastards! :)

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1. Re:Heh.. I was pissed for a second. by kwiqsilver · 2003-03-31 16:51 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Me too, I just switched from Debian to Gentoo over the last few weeks.
  I was already forming the wording for my profanity filled forum post.
its a joke by intermodal · 2003-03-31 16:39 · Score: 0, Funny

this isnt even convincing

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You Suck! by Bios_Hakr · 2003-03-31 16:39 · Score: 4, Funny

My heart jumped about 3 feet before I rememberd it is April 1.

I'll just remember to disregard everything for the next 24 hours.

Come to think of it, most of the stories are misleading anyway. Why should 1 April be any different.

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1. Re:You Suck! by ghum · 2003-03-31 19:34 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'm in Phoenix, so I have an hour and a half of March left.
  
  I use Phoenix, too, but it is 1st of April. What did you configure differently?
2. Re:You Suck! by macshit · 2003-03-31 21:38 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  That would be the best April-fools joke of all -- for the next 24 hours, only post interesting, well-researched, and insightful stories, complete with correct spelling and grammar and no dups.
  
  Then as the slashdot hordes are in the midst of their rejoicing, intoxicated by the future that could be, CmdrTaco can post his `Ha Ha! April Fuls!' story 10 or 11 times.
  
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that's not funny! by jhoffoss · 2003-03-31 16:41 · Score: 4, Funny

I just had a f***ing heart attack, until I thought about that for a minute or two. First time (in ALL honesty) I've EVER been taken in by an April Fool's joke. Shame on you, DRobbins! SHAME ON YOU!!!

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1. Re:that's not funny! by Temporal · 2003-03-31 16:53 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Are you saying you would have believed this article on any other day? This is Slashdot, after all. :P
Thank GOD it's April Fool's... by Chordonblue · 2003-03-31 16:54 · Score: 4, Funny

...We wouldn't want our various versions of Linux to actually agree on ONE standard for package management, after all! :P

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Re:RPMs are why people migrated away by Trogre · 2003-03-31 16:59 · Score: 4, Funny

hook, line and sinker.

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Every single time... by TechScared · 2003-03-31 17:00 · Score: 2, Funny

sick sons of bitches...
Time Zones. Argh. by SecretAsianMan · 2003-03-31 17:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Slashdot wrote:
Posted by timothy on 2003-03-31 22:33
How about a little mercy for the other time zones, you insensitive clod!

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Re:what about mod points? by mark-t · 2003-03-31 17:35 · Score: 1, Funny

Mod people down as an april fool's prank. :)

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In other news by einhverfr · 2003-03-31 17:55 · Score: 2, Funny

RedHat announced today that they will be abandoning the RPM format in favor of .deb. One RedHat source who asked to remain anonymous called RPM "the biggest support nightmare I have ever seen. Why, compiling software is so much easier." ;-)

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Re:April Fools Aside, what is wrong with RPM? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-31 18:06 · Score: 5, Funny

well, it isn't so much RPM that sucks as a tool in itself as it is braindead package authors (well, it is kind of non-unixy in the small tool that does one thing kind of philosophy, rpm is a huge monolithic program). So you try to install lynx and find perl is a dependency. wha? ok, so you install perl. You don't really have space for it on this box, but hey, maybe it will come in handy. But the perl rpm says a dozen or so perl modules are dependencies. huh? Those damn things are optional, goddammit. But whatever. So perl is happy. Back to wget. Now it says it has to install index.html. WTF? A fucking homepage? That's a damn dependency? awright, let it continue, and now it bitches cause index.html is generated by python.

That's the problem with RPM systems. You want to install a text-only browser on a 486 and wind up installing 100 megs more vthan you wanted to.

Some software comes only in RPM packages, like Compaq's C compiler. Ever tried to install an rpm on a Slackware system? It complains that glibc, bin/sh and a kernel aren't installed. RPM is stupid.

I've patched my rpm to take --just-do-it-you-goddam-piece-of-shit as an argument, which sets the --force and --nodep bits.
Re:April Fool's by pod · 2003-03-31 18:39 · Score: 2, Funny

...nt out. Common consensus is that it's April Fools - killin...

The COMMON CONSENSUS?!??! I thought Gentoo users were a pretty smart bunch. It says it's April Fools Joke right on the article. Not much room for consensus there, I'm afraid.

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Re:Nice one! by m00nun1t · 2003-03-31 18:41 · Score: 3, Funny

They will probably just get the same april fools joke and show it 3 times in the next 24 hours as duplicates :)

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MOD PARENT UP! by kinnell · 2003-03-31 18:51 · Score: 4, Funny

...so we can point at him an laugh ;-)

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Re:Hmm by CoolVibe · 2003-03-31 19:06 · Score: 2, Funny

Yeah, and to top it off, it's all Microsoft's fault too. Look! A visual studio ad! They are even paying for it! See?!?
*ducks for cover*
I knew it wasn't true because... by questforme · 2003-03-31 20:34 · Score: 2, Funny

monkeys weren't flying out of my butt.
Re:RPMs are why people migrated away by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-01 00:00 · Score: 1, Funny

RPMs are the number 1 reason I started to avoid redhat.

No they arn't. Admit it, you moved to Gentoo because someone told you it was l33t3r than Debian, and you're too stupid to use FreeBSD (Last years l33t OS for loosers like you). If someone told you shit was peanut butter you'd spread it on chunky bread and tell everyone it was fucking delicious.
Re:It's still March on the west coast. by TheRaven64 · 2003-04-01 01:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Gentoo is all about sources.
Unlike /. which will post anything without checking for authenticity.

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