On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Thufir wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:32:47 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
It isn't the ebuilds per se that are less integrated, but the gentoo
packaging.
Perhaps my last post in the topic! :)
to clarify:
gentoo:
loose integration
greater quantity of packages
fedora:
tight integration
lesser quantity of packages
However, if it's about the same quantity of labor to create an e-build as
to create an RPM, I'm not sure *why* the quantity of ebuilds is greater...
So, isn't some form of, perhaps, tightly integrated build-from source
type packaging, the best of both worlds? (binaries for GNOME, and so
forth, at request a la sabayon.)
Whether the packages are binary or built-from-source is irrelevant. We
could, if we wanted (for some reason), make lots of not-well-integrated
RPMs, achieving the "we have all the packages in teh world!!!11" goal.
Alas, the packaging quality wouldn't be much to write home about, and we'd
probably have to relax or kill the packaging guidelines.
What takes the hard work in Fedora is the tight integration. It has
nothing to do with the nature of RPMs or yum. So, for your example, by
providing "tightly integrated build-from source type packaging," we'd gain
*nothing*. It'd take just as much work to write a tightly-integrated
ebuild as it would to write a tightly-integrated spec. (I think, anyway
-- people with more advanced experience with ebuilds are welcome to
correct me if I'm mistaken.)
Jima
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