Am Freitag, 30. März 2007 23:13 schrieb Christopher Sawtell: > On Saturday 31 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:13:18 +0100 > > > > Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:50:59 +0100 > > > > > > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A few years ago Gentoo had some serious advantages over the > > > > competition. These days, Gentoo is at serious risk of being Red > > > > Queened by Ubuntu and Fedora. Providing the same thing that was > > > > provided two years ago isn't enough. If Portage can't deliver > > > > functionality that makes Gentoo competitive with where Ubuntu > > > > will be a year from now, Portage has to be replaced. > > > > > > You seem to be under the misapprehension that Portage == Gentoo. > > > > No no, I'm saying that at present Portage is one of Gentoo's most > > severe limiting factors. > > In which case your Paludis fork of Gentoo will take off like a Please, pretty please with sugar atop: Stop this FUD about forking Gentoo. Paludis is not a fork of Gentoo, it's new package manager. The relation between Portage and Paludis can, if at all, probably be compared to dselect vs apt.
Don't reply to this mail, just let it drop. Thank you very much. Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
