Gentoo Questions

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I had some time yesterday and spent it browsing the Gentoo web site and 
came up with a question about the updates.  Since I usually install a 
distro and then modify it as needed it sounds like Gentoo might be worth me 
taking a look at.  I see that  Gentoo uses a modified ports system 
according to the web site.  Since most of the rest of the Linux world (or 
the part I inhabit anyway - RH <G>) uses RPM how is the availablity of 
packages for Gentoo?  I know one of the problems with Caldera was that not 
many packages were released in RPMs for it.  I guess I could run RPM on a 
Gentoo system as well as the Ports system but then you have two things to 
keep up with.  What do you do if a package is not available in the Gentoo 
ports system?


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