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Gentoo Linux Rethinks Package Management System

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:More Convience For Average People by kwiqsilver · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. It's a joke. (Look at the calendar. Don't believe anything you read on slashdot in the next 24 hours).
    2. You obviously know not of what you speak. RPMs are more complicated than Gentoo ebuilds or debian debs.
    With Gentoo you type:
    # emerge enlightenment
    You don't have to know anything about C, C++, Python or even shell scripting. All you have to know is your architecture and the optimizations you want (and the detailed docs are very newbie friendly).
    with debian type:
    # apt-get install enlightenment
    Either distro will then install E, X, and all required libs/programs.
    Both distros have centralized package repositories (free of charge) that contain everything I've ever needed, tested for full compatibility.

    With rpm, you find the package, download it, type the rpm command, get an error about libWhatever.X.Y.Z.so being required, spend hours figuring out what package has libWhatever.X.Y.Z.so, go to bed three hours late, because you were looking for the package, ..., get home from work exhausted the next day, look for that package, find a few rpms compiled for a different distro, architecture, gcc version, or rpm version, scream in disgust, and then switch to Debian or Gentoo.