19 Nov
2004
19 Nov
'04
3:09 p.m.
On Thursday 18 November 2004 05:39 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
Not that portage isn't a great package management utility. It's far far better than rpm.
RPM and Portage are almost completely different tools for very different purposes. All RPM does is manage the packages - it handles the installations, tracks what's installed, and what's dependent on what. The portage system includes the ability to fetch packages, fetch dependent packages, etc. It would be more realistic to compare Portage to up2date, urpmi, or YaST.