The evolution of Fedora Core Linux

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, A. Khattri wrote:
> 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.

That seems odd to say the least.  I've done countless RH installations,
with speciic package selections, and its never taken me more than 5-10
minutes at the most.

> 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

When was the last time you used it?

> 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.

RH is easy to script too, that's what kickstart is for.

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

The last time I had dependency hell was back in the RH-6.x days, and I'm
quite confident that i use RH products alot more than you do.  Now if i
had a penny for every Gentoo user out there who was reporting bizarro
instability because he enabled every optimization and USE flag in
existence, I'd be a very wealthy man.  They don't call them Gentoo Ricers
for nothing.

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