On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:37 AM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody care to shout or cry about any of these?
Yes. The author says, "A package contains source code pre-compiled and packaged as a binary installation file (executable)." I disagree! Being binary is not essential to package-hood. Later in the article they say that Gentoo's source-based Portage "does function like a package manager in many ways". A package is a collection of logically coherent software. Like file-utils. It doesn't matter if you get it in source and then build it yourself or if it was given to you pre-compiled. -todd -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
