2009/2/10 Mark Haney mhaney@ercbroadband.org:
Oh? And how come I can install the same set of software in Gentoo and not need an extra 50+MB of dependencies? I wish I had an example at the moment, but I don't. However, I'm sure one will pop up sooner or later.
Because gentoo builds from source on your local machine, building in support for componenets as specified by your USE flags, whereas Fedora is a binary distribution, and dependencies are generated during the building of those binaries.
Now, why don't my apples taste like oranges?
Jonathan.