Linked by Bob Minvielle on Wed 17th Jul 2002 19:18 UTC
There have been many articles as of late about the so called "source" distributions of Linux. Articles about "rpm hell" and how to get out of it. While I have been using Red Rat since the first release (and do have some things for and against it) there is no distribution that will please all of the people all of the time. Then again, that is what makes an OS like Linux nice, in my opinion. Choices. Today, Gentoo Linux is my choice.
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Have you ever tried to set up a SERVER(!) with gentoo?
Say you don't want an X server (who wants that on a server??) but you need vim and nethack (for sysadmin sanity
The very moment you want to install one of these, emerge says you need X for it and starts downloading XFree86 4.2.0.
After sending a mail to the gentoo-users mailing list asking if it is possible to tell emerge NOT to install X, I got several answers which were based on one of three groups:
- It is possible to do it "this way" or "that way" (comment: neither did actually work)
- It might be possible, but I don't know how
- It is not possible
Please note that ALL answers came from Gentoo-Developers.