Gentoo Questions

[Collins]

On Sat, 07 Dec 2002 20:44:02 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb"
<bholcomb at intergate.com> wrote:
> I like the RPM system for tracking, too and that's just one of the
> reasons I left Caldera (or am leaving) - there weren't that many
> RPMs for it!
> 
> > We build a fair number or systems for customers, and I really want
> > a distribution that lends itself to easy system replication.  One
> > of my biggest complaints with Caldera was when they dropped their
> > support for a custom list of RPMS in addition to their canned
> > distribution selections.
> > 

I have nothing against RPM per se, but I have yet to find the distro
that has a large selection of RPMs for general purpose packages that
are kept up to date.  It's probably a good plea for the LFS, because
most RPMs won't work on more than one distro.

I would think that you could setup a fairly simple system for
replicating gentoo systems as well.  I haven't looked into it, but it
is possible to build binary packages with portage.

--
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Gentoo 1.4 system