On Thursday 10 January 2002 19:21, Stuart Krivis wrote: > --On Friday, January 11, 2002 00:19:57 +0100 martin f krafft > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.10.1834 +0100]: > >> Does the RPM build process have an equivalent of > >> dpkg-shlibdeps? > > > > only since recently... but in general, RPM and DEB are > > really functionally equivalent. RPM *is* a good packaging > > system, it's other things which make .rpm based systems suck > > (read my next post). > > I've never felt RPM was as good as DEB. RPM-based distros just > don't seem to be as maintainable over the long haul. > > Personally, I have issues with a binary-based distribution. I > am enamored of the *BSD ports system and buildworld. :-)
An aquaintance of mine used gentoo and showed me that style of build system. Very cool indeed. Which is why I was thrilled to find: apt-get --compile source package_name You may not be able to build a complete source based system with it but it sure is cool.
