On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:21:11PM +0000, Thufir wrote: > If a portage type system can uninstall well, and I believe that to be the > case, that seals it for me. The advantages of a portage type system are > greater than those of a yum type system. I think I can't disagree more. > Sabayon may have screwed things up, but a system which compiles most > things from source in a portage type way, with a few exceptions which are > time intensive, would be easier to maintain and thus larger. Open > Office, the kernel, things like that could be prebuilt. Easier to maintain, for whom? The package/distro builders? Certainly not for an average end-user. Reading opinions like these, I have the impression that most people only think of individual, hacker-type users, not about, say, system administrators maintaining large networks of systems, having to support those systems (and users) easily, etc. -- -- 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
