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?I use freshmeat to locate packages that I want and build it from source. This way I make the decission what version goes onto my system. If something breaks, I then have an Idea as to what "I did" and usually can then fix it<G>
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Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.
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