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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. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. What this really means by Ignorant+Aardvark · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It must be getting around that time of year ... April, huh?

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  3. Um... by BlueGecko · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...couldn't we at least hold off April Fool's jokes until--and I admit this is a long shot--April Fool's Day?

  4. Nice one! by TheFrood · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This was a clever April Fool's post. It caught me by surprise. Well done, Slashdot.

    Of course, what I'm not looking forward to is the next twenty-four hours, when Slashdot will be filled with nonstop April Fool's jokes, completely defeating the purpose of April Fool's day.

    TheFrood

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  5. Happy 1/4/2003 by mattite · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was so scared, I soiled myself. Now excuse me while I go change my armor....

    Just in case anyone's really confused:
    http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030401-newslet ter.xml

  6. Re:More Convience For Average People by pyros · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Man. I know I shouldn't feed the trolls. But I'm sick of this. You're comparing a file format to a dependency tracking system. compare apt-get and portage to up2date for redhat. Don't even try to tell me that downloading the .deb for enlightenment and trying to install it with dpkg is any simpler than downloading the .rpm for enlightenment and installing it with rpm. dpkg won't automatically track down dependencies and install them for you. It will just fail. Just like trying to install the rpm will. 'up2date enlightenment' is just as easy to understand as 'apt-get install enlightenment' And don't give me any crap about only getting stuff from Red Hat. Anyone can set up an up2date server, just like anyone can set up an apt repository.

  7. The sad part is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Most of these April Fools posts will be because the /. moderators were taken themselves. Given the number of dups I doubt they even think about it at all.