almost totally <ot>

[Collins]

Was Re: Installing Libranet in VMware ?

Latest from Brett I. Holcomb:


Yup, been there, done that!  My last RPM hunt was for the old Caldera WS 
3.1 machine that I'm replacing with Gentoo and that was about a year ago.  
If I went back to RPM distros I'd probably look at apt-get.  When I did to 
the RPM thing I either wrote my own for packages or found the source (even 
back then I was "Using the Source, Collins" <G>) if I could.  Someday when 
I have all the time in the world I'll check out another one like SUSE.



Collins wrote:

> 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.
> 

Amazing how far we have come.  Back in the days of yore I was the only one 
pushing gentoo, and royally gored for doing so.

Nowadays, nobody blinks an eye.

I, too, have become more tolerant.  I've still got my gentoo system, but I'll 
probably turn that into a server.  I'm running day-to-day from a SUSE 9.0 
setup using the much loathed (by me) KDE instead of something lean-and-mean 
like xfce or icewm.  Amazing what a 2.4Gz system will do!

-- 
Collins