Installing Libranet in VMware ?

Collins erichey2
Mon May 17 11:57:25 PDT 2004


On Friday 26 December 2003 18:16, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> Thanks for the information.  I'm running Gentoo and it has an ebuild.  I
> hope not to see RPM for a very long time <G>.  I'm not familiar with VMWare

Just a little <ot> here, and no <G> needed.

I, too, have a general aversion to RPM, but the modern distros like SUSE and 
Red Hat do a fine job of doing dependancy checking (a la portage) and 
relieving the less savy user from the intricacies of RPM.  The one thing they 
don't have is the tremendously broad availability of standard packages (a la 
portage).  Hunting down a suitable RPM package is now the worst aspect of an 
RPM based system.  Of course, in you install all the -dev packages, you can 
always just build from source.

-- 
Collins



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