Shish wrote:
>> RPM, grrr
> 
> portage seems much easier to hack / fix than RPM - eg, Rather than wait for a
> new .rpm to be released, you can download the current source tarball, and just
> change the checksums in the portage database. Having the plain-text database
> and the large program tarballs as separate things is very convenient - Portage
> and the runlevel implementation are my main reasons for going gentoo :) (I have
> yet to try apt though; Most of my software comes from linux magazine
> coverdisks, and they seem to have not supplied debian ISOs recently :( I would
> try debian when they do though, as I have some spare boxen...)

I use trustix, as I mentioned, and I don't have a problem with this...
Of course, over 50% of the packages I actually use (not counting system
libs) were packaged by... me. :)
Oh, and on that subject, I'm planning on starting my very own distro
sometime in the future - how's that for hardcore geekyness? :)

Cheers,
-- 
Dr. P


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