On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:05:54PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > * find out the build and runtime dependencies by parsing the spec files > and construct a tree of needed build Run-time dependencies are mostly calculated and can't be extracted from the spec files. > * gento follows upstream even more closely than fedora, there is no > real integration Is this an advantage? ;-) A distro that does not integrate packages to make it consistent? That's how I read this, maybe you meant to say something different... > The result is that it is certainly much easier to write ebuilds, that > certainly explains for a part why there are more packages. The number > of packagers and the time they dedicate to building packages would be > the other parameter. These are numbers that is not easily found. Quality is more important then quantity. > One advantage of Fedora over gentoo or debian is that there are paid > redhat people for the maintainance of the most difficult and moving > packages, like firefox, gcc, kernel, glibc, and so on.... At least you discovered one advantage so far ;-). -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
