I switched from Caldera to Gentoo because of the package availability problem. So far Gentoo developers have not disappointed me. It seems like a week or two after something new comes out there is a Gentoo ebuild available for it, sometimes even sooner. There is a package list and a daily changelog on their website, check it out. Gentoo is easy to update & keep current. Works For Me (tm).
Tom Jandl On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 11:52, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > I had some time yesterday and spent it browsing the Gentoo web site and > came up with a question about the updates. Since I usually install a > distro and then modify it as needed it sounds like Gentoo might be worth me > taking a look at. I see that Gentoo uses a modified ports system > according to the web site. Since most of the rest of the Linux world (or > the part I inhabit anyway - RH <G>) uses RPM how is the availablity of > packages for Gentoo? I know one of the problems with Caldera was that not > many packages were released in RPMs for it. I guess I could run RPM on a > Gentoo system as well as the Ports system but then you have two things to > keep up with. What do you do if a package is not available in the Gentoo > ports system? > > > -- > Brett I. Holcomb > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AKA Grunt <>< > Registered Linux User #188143 > Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
