[Yum] Survey of Use

[seth vidal]

> The downside is that even on a fast machine, it takes considerable time to
> build anything; time you cannot be using the box. And since each install is
> customized to the CPU, portability is virtually nonexistant.  I don't see
> running Gentoo in a real production environment, but some users report that
> it screams as a Linux desktop.

the benchmark reports I've seen don't bear out the 'screams' report but
<shrug>. If someone wants to run gentoo, more power to them, but for an
environment where there are a lot of machines to support it doesn't seem
like it would scale to handle that many gentoo boxes. 


> The funny thing is, I hated Red Hat because of its "RPM dependency hell."
> Then I discovered Yum, and I'm seeing RH in a whole new light now.  Keep up
> the good work.

haha - glad it makes that easier. 

> PS:  Does anyone know of a site that posts customized kickstart scripts?
> I'd like to learn what others are doing with ks.cfg...


some examples:
http://linux.duke.edu/doc/kickstart-examples/

all the exciting things happen in %post :)

-sv