What's after OpenLinux?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 07:29:39 -0800
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> 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.

The system (Portage) is described by Gentoo as being like the BSD ports
system, but with many improvements. I have not used BSD's ports to tell.


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