Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 02:21:17 +0000
"Robert E. Raymond" <rraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I finally gave up on Gentoo for my pianist's computer today and 
> installed Redhat 9.  It's currently reminding me why I don't use an RPM 
> based distro myself, though it is pretty nice and once I get a few 
> things fixed it will be great for my pianist (for one he needs a GUI for 
> just about everything and Gentoo doesn't provide that).

Of course Gentoo does not have an ebuild for everything under the sun.
What types of things are missing that cause a problem? Just curious.

You are not limited from installing RPMs on Gentoo. Dependencies could
probably be a hassle, but they are on a pure RPM system (wherever those may
exist).


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