From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I6LZL-0000vS-3j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:16:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l657Ep5P011667; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 07:14:51 GMT Received: from telos.xk7.net (telos.xk7.net [80.68.91.117]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l657Aopd007072 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 07:10:50 GMT Received: by telos.xk7.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9BEF260370; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:10:49 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:10:49 +0100 From: Paul Waring To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return) Message-ID: <20070705071049.GB5315@telos.xk7.net> References: <49bf44f10707030907jaa9f524maef27beb2a7c9df@mail.gmail.com> <59f9c5160707040133m46b6b592obcde11d2c1e0083d@mail.gmail.com> <20070705014010.GA26335@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070705014010.GA26335@waltdnes.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: 81ff8181-9204-4f34-bfa9-5dae12a06634 X-Archives-Hash: 30e7da7c9a277a06514556d7c58f6b85 On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > emerge is along the same lines. "make menuconfig" is the limits of my > expertise. I remember "RPM hell" with Redhat linux, trying to find an > RPM package for a program I wanted, where the developer hadn't linked it > against a bunch of stuff I didn't have. I can take a text-only basic > system, "emerge gimp", and emerge will pull in and build, in the right > order, all the necessary X libraries, GTK, etc, etc. I end up with a > functional TWM "desktop". "emerge bbkeys" emerges blackbox > key-controls... after first emerging blackbox. Try doing that with > RPMs. What makes you think that you can't do that with RPMs now? Seven years ago they were a nightmare but things have moved on since then. The same goes for deb files (can't think of any other major ones off the top of my head). Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list