Gentoo Questions

[Ted Ozolins]

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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I use freshmeat to locate packages that I want and build it from source. 
This way I make the decission what version goes onto my system.  If 
something breaks, I then have an Idea as to what "I did"  and usually 
can then fix it<G>

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Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.

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