Re: [MiNT] rpm

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

Just want to say that Gentoo can generate RPM's too, but I think the
dependency chain needs some work as it's never properly worked when
generating the RPM.

Alan.

On 20/12/14 12:36, David Sandberg wrote:
> Yes, there is a cross compiler as rpm. Rpm ist a very good automatic update system. On targz you don't can make anything reverse. I never shall do Gentoo or something like that. Rpm is what we needet.
>
> David
>
> "M.A. Kehr" <makehr@ndh.net> schrieb:
>
>>>  RPM is doomed to hell in Freemint's case IMHO. No
>>> cross compiling
>> That's not right, AFAIR it is possible to cross compile rpms.
>>
>> I never installed gentoo, how dows it work to install and uninstall packages?
>> It might be easy to install a tar.gz but how I can get rid of it, if I want to or is there a possibility in gentoo?
>>
>> Another point, on a sparemint installation it is very simple to configure network and other daemons, how's this in gentoo?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> maanke
>>