On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 23:33 -0500, Andrew Muraco wrote: > I like your idea of having gentoo not being a distro, but moreso a > collection of tools. Mostly because gentoo's method of dealing with > problems (problems that binary distros tend to have, like keeping > software uptodate) are handled in a way thats just a tad more managable, > plus when multiple repo support gets added, its just another way that > gentoo can be customized and reflavored. > > +1 for that thinking
I have to completely agree. I see Gentoo as what it is, according to our own web page. We are a meta-distribution. We are a collection of tools and services that can be customized to be what you want it to be. That does not imply limiting what we can and cannot do in any way. If I wanted to make an arm-only source-based hardened distribution utilizing uclibc entirely, I could do so utilizing only the work that has been put into our portage tree. The problem seems to be that there are certain people who want things to happen, but can't drum up the manpower to do so. Rather than work harder at drumming up support, they wish to instead create a system where our *volunteer* developers are *forced* to do what they want. I'm sorry, but screw that. You guys are more than welcome to go apply at Red Hat or Novell. Hey, I hear SCO is still distributing Linux, too. They'll gladly give you the mission statements and "direction" that you so desire. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
