From: Michael Kohl <citizen428@...>
Date: 2003-02-12T18:22:28+09:00
Subject: Re: The way of the Gentoo

Hi!

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 03:48:06 +0100
"MikkelFJ" <mikkelfj-anti-spam@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> This is interesting - I have only known Gentoo about a week and I was
> afraid the rpkg project wasn't really taking off.
> Seeing these things emerge together is the best I could hope for.

Seeing my favourite Operating System (Gentoo) an my new favourite
programming language (disclaimer: I haven't done any serious development
with Ruby so far, only installed 1.6.8 and Eruby for my local Apache
installation and played around with it a little, but I really like it
for it's power, flexibility and the nice, readable syntax it features)
profitting from each other, really makes look forward to the development
of rpkg.

Portage was one of the main things which attracted me to Gentoo. At
least in the beginning, later one I discovered lots of other advantages
like the specially patched gentoo-sources kernel, the nice initscript
handling and so on. Since then most other attempts to package managment
(maybe except *.deb, and the Application Folders of the ROX/RISC OS
desktop) seem pretty clumsy to me.

That was quite a long post for just saying: good package managment and
easy maintance attracts people and can be the one thing that makes
them stick once the get used to this conveniance.

Hope I dind't go to OT here, if so I'm sorry.

Michael

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