A pox on Fedora and in their hat too

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:26:03 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 
> > Huh?  GRP?  I gotta read the FM some day.  Wozzat?  If it's
> > something I gotta do, it won't happen -- too much difference
> > between machines.
> >
> > Why would it be any better than any else's binary distro?
> 
> 
> A GRP install is the nearest Gentoo gets to a binary install.
> 

GRP is just that - a quick and binary install. You get a quick way to
install the product with the most comonly needed packages available as
binaries at the current stable level as of when the GRP binaries were
built (check the doco for which [limited set of] cpu types are
available). After the install, all upgrdes are compile from source.


-- 
 Collins