Gentoo Questions

[Tom Jandl]

I switched from Caldera to Gentoo because of the package availability
problem. So far Gentoo developers have not disappointed me. It seems
like a week or two after something new comes out there is a Gentoo
ebuild available for it, sometimes even sooner. There is a package list
and a daily changelog on their website, check it out. Gentoo is easy to
update & keep current. Works For Me (tm).

Tom Jandl


On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 11:52, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 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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> Brett I. Holcomb
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