On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:18:01PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote: > 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. Indeed, I was wrong. As soon as a source package needs a build time dependency that has run time dependency this doesn't work anymore. Of course there would still be a minimal build root in any case since there are build time dependencies between bash, make, gcc, coreutils that are unworkable, even with run-time rpm dependencies. I am wondering whether it would work if runtime requirements of just built packages are also considered. > > * 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... I am not saying that it is good or bad, I am stating a fact. > > 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 ;-). In all my mail I didn't tried to weight fedora against gentoo, I tried to disambiguate what the real differences are. If you really want to know, I personnally prefer fedora, that's why I participate in fedora, and there are many reasons for that that are not about package availability, ease to write a package nor package integration. Still for some uses gentoo is nice, not for mine and maybe the gentoo community is nice, but I like the Fedora (with redhat) community. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
