On Thursday 08 November 2007, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > emerge/portage is the similar in being a higher > > level utility versus the "make process" (which I hope most on > > this list know what I am talking about; especially the Gentoo > > sadists like myself ;-) ). > > Again, I should have stated "rpmbuild ~ source" prior. > But since ebulid does binary installs, it does fit ~ DPKG ~ RPM. > > As far as "Gentoo sadists," I run Gentoo as well for developer > environments. Leading edge development on Fedora is too far behind > (and anyone who develops on RHEL doesn't realize the mistake they are > making -- RHEL is for sustainment-cycle development). Gentoo is > ideal in comparison.
OMG, now there are at least three gentoo-zealots here :-) I think we should tread very carefully on the matter of testing ebuild/emerge/portage at any LPI level. Gentoo is a niche product, just like Slackware. It's an amazing distro - I run it on all my machines and on the 20 servers I control. But I would never consider it representative of Linux in the way that the LPI cert is representative, it's just too focused. RPM-based and deb-based distros have the lion's share of the market and we can agree that knowing their tools is required knowledge. Knowing gentoo is something that most LPIC-1 graduates will not be going near for some time yet. I'd rather not see portage become the brunt of people's frustration at having to learn some niche technology that they have no plans to use any time soon. My 2c alan -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
