What's after OpenLinux?

[Ken Moffat]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> 
> The problem is that RPM limits itself to the package in question. emerge
> takes the next step and defines the relationship between packages. And,
> instead of just stopping and saying "something is missing so bugger off
> and sort that out and don't return until you do", as rpm will do, emerge
> takes action and gets the missing things. It is the admittance that no
> package is an island that makes emerge work. 
> 
> There are other problems solved by this approach as well.
> 
> 

This sounds like debian apt-get and it's various carnations.

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Ken Moffat
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