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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. Special effect noise needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That sound in cartoons *boing*. Like a spring popping through a couch. Or the innards of a watch flying out. *Boing!*

    *Boing!* *Pop!* *Crack!*

    "Hey, that sounds like Bill logging into the server with his new Gentoo install!"

  2. Re:Heh.. I was pissed for a second. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pissed for a second, a moron for life. Such is the life of a lowly Gentoo user.

  3. Farscape + Trigun Tonight, W00t!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've got to get me a PVR.