On 7/5/07, Paul Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
Well, in the world of audio RPMs anyway the problem always was that
different audio apps used different versions of libraries. Last time I
used Fedora (maybe 3-4 years ago now) none of the RPM managers would
automatically go find all the right libraries for some odd audio app I
wanted to try out, and then even if they did if I decided to take the
app off my system there wasn't a good way to clean up after the fact.
Beyond that I never had a major Fedora upgrade go cleanly. My Gentoo
machines are now multi-years old and they just update each week or two
as new revisions come out.
I'm sure things are much better today but I still hear folks complain
about this sort of this on the pro-audio lists once in awhile. I
couldn't have written a better description of my use of Gentoo than
Walter did. I'm pretty much exactly the same sort of user. Gentoo
works great for me.
Cheers,
Mark
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