Gentoo patches [was Re: [CLUE-Tech] Escape from RH 8.0]

[Ed Hill]

On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 21:59, Adam Bultman wrote:
> > 
> > > Since you bring it up, suppose I have a patch that gentoo doesn't.  How
> > > hard is it to get a patched version of the package installed?
> > >
> 
> Not to perpetuate the could-be war here, but Gentoo's portage system does 
> have a few bugs in it. I can't currently emerge cups, as it's busted.  
> There's a few other things that are broken, but man. I like it 	*so* much 
> better than debian. Whoo!  I have debian at work (and my gentoo 
> workstation replaced my debian workstation) and it's a lot better.   I 
> adore the portage system.  I run gentoo on my web/mail/db server ath ome, 
> and it's been wonderful.  It's nice.  I almost prefer it over slackware 
> (which is my all time fav so far).x


Ok, I'm not trying to turn this into a flame war but heres a *practical*
question: if you are given a closed-source binary-only set of RPMs with
non-trivial dependencies (eg. NI's LabVIEW), how would you go about
installing it on gentoo?  Have any of you solved this problem?

This is not a made-up or theoretical example.  I use LabVIEW on Linux on
an almost daily basis and they ship it as a bunch of RPMs.  I'd like to
try other distros but it seems like a lot of effort only to wind up with
a system that will be difficult (?) to use in conjunction with our
commercial apps.

Ed

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