On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > emerge is along the same lines. "make menuconfig" is the limits of my > expertise. I remember "RPM hell" with Redhat linux, trying to find an > RPM package for a program I wanted, where the developer hadn't linked it > against a bunch of stuff I didn't have. I can take a text-only basic > system, "emerge gimp", and emerge will pull in and build, in the right > order, all the necessary X libraries, GTK, etc, etc. I end up with a > functional TWM "desktop". "emerge bbkeys" emerges blackbox > key-controls... after first emerging blackbox. Try doing that with > RPMs.
What makes you think that you can't do that with RPMs now? Seven years ago they were a nightmare but things have moved on since then. The same goes for deb files (can't think of any other major ones off the top of my head). Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
