On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 16:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Hm, no problems with updates via normal 4.2 repo config here.
Which is why I asked what someone has hoped to accomplish. There are few specifics that have been listed.
1) Most people, Kai and myself included, have had few issues -- other than the earliest 4.2 rebuild (CentOS) that I didn't have with RHEL 4U2.
2) Repository hell affects _most_ other package distros, including Debian. Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros get around them by including software that may not be legally redistributed.
3) Gentoo is a ports distro, and sacrifices fixed releases and configuration management for source-level compatibility. Which is better, I will not say, but for rolling out many systems, Gentoo adds additional configuration management burden for myself.
So in the end, you want to reduce many factors into a single "frustration" of "just fix it" -- when I've seen little of any suggestion.
Which is why you are correct, we've exhausted this thread. You've admitted you don't understand how several things work with regards to redistribution. So it doesn't surprise me that these comments keep coming from people who do not.