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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)"
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:07:54AM -0400, brett holcomb wrote:
> Well, if speed is all they want to worry about <G>.=20
> However, I find that one of the biggest advantages of=20
> Gentoo is no more RPMs!!!!  Come to think of it - if I=20
> factor in all the time it takes to get all the=20
> dependencies and files to satisfy them on an RPM based=20
> system then Gentoo is way faster - by days <G>.

RPMs are no bad invention. The only problem is that the RPM-based
distributions lacked a decent frontend for a long time. Most users where al=
so
informed that "rpm -i" was the preferred method to install software.

Think of RPM vs Ebuild. How many times do you install an ebuild using "ebui=
ld
<ebuildfile> merge"?

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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    Save some animals, eat a vegetarian.

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