Ports-like systems, was Re: [oclug] distributions

[Dave Edwards]

On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 14:32, Ross Jordan wrote:
>  
> > Does gentoo take care of making sure that the proper version of
> > differnet "packages" exists so that dependencies aren't broken?
> Yes. Portage (the gentoo package system) is a cross between Debian
> apt and FreeBSD ports packages. Compiles everything from source (with
> system optimizations), and handles dependencies.
> 
> It's the nicest Linux I've seen in a long time (although you need
> a decent CPU and/or patience).
> 

Garnome was mentioned in another thread; it is a distribution of Gnome2
by Gar (or is it GarChitecture?), another ports-like system that will be
distro-neutral.  Cf.: http://gar.lnx-bbc.org/wiki/GarChitecture .  It
works very nicely in Garnome.

Dave.
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