The problem is that RPM limits itself to the package in question. emerge
takes the next step and defines the relationship between packages. And,
instead of just stopping and saying "something is missing so bugger off
and sort that out and don't return until you do", as rpm will do, emerge
takes action and gets the missing things. It is the admittance that no
package is an island that makes emerge work.
There are other problems solved by this approach as well.
This sounds like debian apt-get and it's various carnations.
-- Ken Moffat kmoffat <at> drizzle.com
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