On 10/21/2014 11:55 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Capi" <c...@lugosys.com>
Whoops, used the wrong alias to reply. >> Not *every single* distribution... > I had meant to put an asterisk on that. My remark was meant to be tongue-in-cheek :) > Ok, but how does it handle providing initscripts? I gather any upstreams > which used to provide them aren't anymore... The Gentoo devs take care of that. I presume they reuse what they can from upstream... They do a lot of hard work (sometimes more work than they have the manpower for, unfortunately). I remember, for example, back in KDE 3.5 days they were already dividing the upstream KDE mega packages (kde-games, kde-office) into individual packages, so you could choose specific programs instead of 300 MB bundles.
