On Sunday 28 October 2007, Jonathan Otsuka wrote:
On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:30 PM, Luke -Jr wrote:
On Saturday 27 October 2007, David Nicol wrote:
On 10/27/07, Luke -Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
Why anyone would use Fedora for anything, let alone a server, has always confused me.
or why anyone would use Gentoo when they could use BSD
Gentoo supports BSD ;)
Whoever uses Gentoo tools on BSD is just not smart (ports/packages have been around a lot longer than Gentoo has).
Every package builder/manager has its strengths and weaknesses. Whether someone is better off with ports or portage is dependent on what they want to do with it.
If they didn't like the way the current package manager why not try to improve upon it and not replace it. I do like writing my own software, but at times rewriting/porting seems wasteful and this is one of them.
Sometimes the original architecture just isn't flexible enough.