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To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
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Subject: Re: Linux with a ports collection
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"Jeremy C. Reed" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, rob wrote:
> 
> > nice features, but having a ports collection would be so cool, and so
> 
> Gentoo Linux has a ports-like system (called "portage"). It is based on
> python.
> 
> NetBSD's pkgsrc is used under Red Hat Linux.
> 
> It seems like I have heard of others.
> 
> > much easier for novice users.
> 
> As long as the package source collection is well tested (i.e. dependencies
> work).
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
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Right.  We've got one team of people who work mostly on ports.  It would
take some time to build that up.  SuSE has a pretty good rpm based
system called Yast.  I've used it before a few years ago.  Still, I
would always run into situations where I'd update a package, which then
needed later libraries, and I'd find that 20 other packages then
wouldn't run.  Rob.

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