[bf1942] Linux server status report 2003-04-14

[ScratchMonkey]

--On Monday, April 14, 2003 9:21 PM +0200 Arne Kühl <ronin-x at web.de> wrote:

> gentoo has the "emerge-thing" there's a general lilst with all
> dependencies, you can d/l and emerge downloads automatically all dep's.

Ok, but download from where? For RPM, Red-carpet uses a database of 
dependencies hosted by Ximian, and Red Hat's up2date uses RH's dependency 
database and downloads from a RH mirror. Presumably gentoo has the same 
problem of needing a central database somewhere of where to get 
dependencies from.

For RPM there's also http://rpmlist.net/ which is a database of RPM's from 
many distros, not necessarily interoperable, but there's no dependency 
tree. This is where I look for an RPM when I know Red Hat hasn't packaged 
one.