The evolution of Fedora Core Linux

[A. Khattri]

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

> 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.

We're talking about going through the whole list of packages (i.e.
hundreds of packages) and hand-selecting what we dont want... that's not a
5 minute job.

> > 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?

Right now Im working on a contract project managing 23 RHEL4 servers...

> 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.

I too was a long time RH user for years, since 1996 at least. Right now Im
working on a contract project managing 23 RHEL4 servers...

> 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.

Im sure there are some Gentoo folks who are nuts about their flags and
optimization but the vast majority are pretty sensible folk who accept
the (sensible) defaults. I would argue you get the few oddballs in *any*
group of advocates.

I picked Gentoo purely from a maintenance and package customization
standpoint - Im not happy that RH decides for me what features *I* want in
the packages I install. Granted, in most cases the defaults are more or
less OK but if you want a few packages different, you can't do it in RH
unless you build from source RPM or just use a tarball (and then you're
stuck, in essence, maintaining the packages yourself which kinda defeats
the purpose).

You will note I wrote this post without making any insulting remarks about
RedHat users - we're talking about RH products here not RH users. We can
agree to disagree without those kind of remarks. Thanks.


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