Hi, On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 02:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Duncan wrote: > Meanwhile, lest the point have been missed in my previous post, I really > do believe gentoo can and should reach out to other gentoo-based distros, > and all distros in the community can and should be directly supporting > each other and referring users to each other when they're a better fit > for the specific use-case. It's possible some may not want it (IOW ask > first), but for those that do, I could even envision the early sections > of the handbook where people are choosing what they want and how they > want to install, linking directly to these sister distros both as quick- > install methods and for those who sort of like the idea of gentoo, but > aren't quite ready to jump into the full from-source thing just yet, tho > they might want an easy way to get ready so they can do it later if they > decide to. At least sabayon (and I'd suppose calculate as well) already > encourages those who wish to, to switch directly to gentoo, and both > mentions and links gentoo resources in its documentation, and it'd be > very nice if gentoo was willing to return the favor. After all, we're on > the same team, and as I've pointed out to other users in the past, > there's no lost face in simply deciding gentoo isn't right for you at > this point, and that some other distro is a better match. If we can > point them at a gentoo-based distro, they'll at least still be in the > ecosystem, and who knows, when their needs change, they may well be > back. =:^) This is reasonable and fair enough. Feel free to submit required changes to the wiki[1]. I'm not sure if users are allowed to change this article, but you can always open a discussion page with proposed changes[2].
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page [2]https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Template%3AInfoBox+talk+open&namespace=561 Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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