Gentoo Questions

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 08:23:59PM +0000, Collins wrote:
...
>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 spend a fair amount of time building current RPMS for the packages that
we use (our production systems are still all Caldera in one incarnation or
another).  We have development boxes for each distribution going back to
OpenLinux 1.3 so that we can be sure that the RPMS we use are consistent
with the same set of libraries etc.

Life gets more difficult when one has to maintain an installed base, and
there are some systems that would be difficult to update since they're (a)
working, and (b) mission-critical.

Bill
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