Gentoo Questions

[Tom Jandl]

Brett, I think the best bet in your case is to free up some extra disk
space and try Gentoo on a spare partition. I still boot mine from grub
on my eWS3.11 partition. Once you are through the pain of the initial
installation, I'm sure you will be pleased. Have you ever tried to build
Evolution on a Caldera KDE system? RPM/dependency hell is what I call
it. On my KDE based Gentoo system I just ran "emerge Evolution" at bed
time & the next morning Evolution and all it's dependencies were built
and ready to run. Made a believer out of me!

Tom Jandl


On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 19:44, Brett I. Holcomb 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.
> > 
> > Bill
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> > do it.''
> >     Will Rogers
> 
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