On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:10:57PM +0000, Thufir wrote: > > I'd like to see Fedora consider some form of portage because that would, There is already something along that, recompiling the srpm with rpmbuild --rebuild, for example. > hopefully, increase the number of packages. All other things being > equal, ebuilds are, apparently, easier to write. No, they aren't. It could be argued that spec file and ebuilds are easier to write than the corresponding debian files, but in my opinion spec files are not harder nor easier to write than ebuilds. What happens is that gentoo ebuilds are written with less care to integration than fedora specfiles, that whats make them easier to write in my opinion. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list