quoth the Albert Hopkins: > [Comment about Gentoo's non-participation in LSB] > > While I somewhat agree, I think Gentoo's main selling point (at least > for me) is that is the way it stands out from your typical Linux distro. > It's source-based package system was once what distinguished it from the > rest. In summary, I don't think Gentoo should totally adapt to what > "the rest" are going any more than I think Slackware or GoboLinux > should. What I do see is that perhaps there are ideas that Gentoo has > that maybe other distros could benefit from, and vice versa. But > sometimes we have to agree to disagree with "mainstream".
> Albert W. Hopkins Exactly. LSBs insistence on using RPM as the "One True Package Manager" seems incredibly daft to me. It was RPM-hell that steered me towards Gentoo all those years ago in the first place. I cannot put into words how much I loathe RPM. Seems to me if Gentoo wholesale adopted the LSB then it would be little more than another Redhat/SuSe clone no? And nobody here wants that, do they? Portage (or the tree as Ciaran puts it) is _still_ the chief reason I use Gentoo, and I rather think it will always be... just another Gentoo luser, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
