On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 12:23 pm, Laurie Brown wrote:
Folks,
According to the latest Gentoo newsletter, the following is happening:
"In what will likely prove to be a controversial decision, Portage 2.1 will adopt the RPM format for all packages moving forward. The use of ebuilds will be deprecated in favor of the defacto RPM standard. The primary driver for this decision was to ensure compliance with the Linux Standard Base[1] specification, which mandates RPM support for package management."
Further:
"Additionally, because of LSB's required library support[2], the xfree86 package will move to become part of the base Gentoo Linux system, rather than an optional addition."
I have *major* problems with this. Firstly, I want compiled, optimised code, not someone else's RPMd crap, and secondly, what the hell do I want xfree86 on a server for? I've been really happy with G2 for the last year, and now this...
What's Debian doing in this regard? Anyone know?
Cheers, Laurie.
Do the words spagetti and tree have any meaning to you Laurie?
Check the date of the newsletter. :-)
Cheers, BJ