The evolution of Fedora Core Linux

[A. Khattri]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Net Llama! wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, A. Khattri wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> >
> > >    I have noticed that before, I usually go thru packages  to sel/desel.
> >
> > Yeah, I used to do that on RH boxes (which used to take *ages* ;-)
>
> Takes significantly less time than setting up a gentoo system.

Actually, with a stage 3, by not much. I remember spending about an hour
selecting individual packages with the "server" install.

The main problem being that the package selection tool (at least the last
time I had to use it) does not check dependencies until *after* you click
OK, so then you keep going back to add/remove dependencies - rinse,
repeat. This is tiresome and more work than a stage 3 (i.e. binary
bootstrap) Gentoo install (which is the normal Gentoo install now BTW),
which is easy to script.

And you still end up with a more minimal install and dead easy maintenance
without dependency hell...


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