-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/06/16 12:38, Rich Freeman wrote: > So, I was chatting with an Exherbo dev. Their model isn't quite > what your earlier emails seemed to suggest (at least as I read > it). You should get them to reply to this thread, because...
> As I understand it the Exherbo way Having spoken with an Exherbo developer (Ciaran, who's replied here), and an Exherbo user, I don't think you understand "the Exherbo way". > The impression that I got from your earlier emails is that you're > advocating a highly decentralized bottom-up system, where everybody > just publishes their packages and people borrow from each other's > work, and the behavior of the overall distro is fairly emergent. I am advocating a *modular* system more so than a decentralised system. > You suggested at one point that the need for what we call > developers could almost go away. I did not. > Now you're talking about having centralized core/base packages, > which obviously necessitates developers. Maybe your concept is > that the core/base packages are a very small subset of what we have > today. Yes! So you *do* get it. > I still think you're underestimating the need for centralization. > What you call a "core/base" package is probably going to end up > being anything listed in a dependency. That is a LOT of packages, > actually - we're not just talking about libc and zlib. It's not a lot compared to how many we have today. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXXmW2AAoJENQqWdRUGk8BmREQAOMeQUFKLgF8sApjJB/SrbV9 eUg9PQ+vHyRXEEGEKLvOZ3+Qv92+Mt4WMz+8kHft5Aa5jghubxsSdyz6rKhizI8A ee6tgTIPcSAE5End+6FtYMfzlseKfEcX0HDCvXewvUM/RzTFnfl3bpL5i1rXGBRF Q7y/yM6AjljeHkaQvyKu4byhBtOWgo76Lw84jTfmcamaoTzv82w+J8aL0IChTKd6 8dKYrz6emkEuNf5oILl+0Z9e18ypusChr5xWUMsFPrEWW9/umFc0Cz7xqbLA/xx1 9nd85WJGIYwkjrAuCoxK/wo4+6hZu9QVHb1LEpBXUhYmaFRV7pxc2kjN3f7GzgYn m+tlB/dN0Wq5+B0FeG64asngEKSdSuy3J7+o+mOvPS4Sz1JDH4mgPZ0ybaypziVG OIMFUTwVvMaTaraKzJhI0OjKVCdBCKlEJwzBEYa2t1iyroPcdAABILkly0ZuQ6K6 BtLjqkC1TX9J+kyfLq3gqmSXujSEuaTZ5d7UTXfCUMqybTVX35P7Cpo6M4kbt3vg QRHjLhQP0A1M++YIhX+H0UGcKsjDzQgt2dzGfc70FIJJrElG2DtEwmMqN3n5DAi7 H4OcxeGJZ1C9RqvyMMvgWO+6UcCQaJbHaFnQ1UzqeTvueNd4iP/Ma2JaMN8PRWoZ fRCD0dZZ5XKPSlbIiT3H =Rwas -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
