On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:59, Rich Freeman wrote: >> I'm a bit concerned that the future of linux on the desktop is going to be >> one where your choices are things like Android, ChromeOS, Ubuntu, Gnome OS, >> or a "KDE OS." Each one would have its own package managers, repositories, >> distros, APIs, etc. Clearly there is some benefit from the vertical >> integration (Android and ChromeOS have a very high level of polish, and >> Ubuntu is approaching this often by just writing their own stuff). Instead >> of working to influence other projects (which can be frustrating), big >> distros are looking to just eliminate dependencies outside of themselves. >> This will be a big challenge for a smaller distro like Gentoo. Obviously we >> can't just go write our own Wayland replacement, even if we did essentially >> make our own "systemd" of sorts. > > you're aware the ChromeOS is built on top of / with Gentoo right ?
"Gentoo" is defined by portage and the portage tree. If we remove that, the end result is no different than compiling stuff manually in Slackware or by hand. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
