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On 25-05-2009 11:02:32 +0300, "C. Bergström" wrote: |
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> >> It's not about who is better. I don't think Prefix is worthless for |
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> >> 64-bits, as we do a pretty much good job there. |
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> To clarify my 64bit comment.. If you need 64bit libvscan on solaris how |
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> will you build it with prefix? |
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It's a kernel module (or whatever the right terminology is), right? Then |
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Prefix is not the thing to use, by design. |
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> So if you are say a university student, some non-admin employee or have |
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> a weird heterogeneous environment.. Sure prefix is great and makes |
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> certain things more convenient, but is that an individual or business |
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> use case? |
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It's more than one. Even though I got root on my home machines, I like |
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to be non-root on them to use my Prefixes. |
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> In fairness.. A long time ago.. /we/ used prefix to bootstrap and |
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> experiment to get the whole thing going. I was more or less tossing this |
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> out there originally and not trying to "compete" with prefix.. I |
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> somewhat see this as arguing that you're buying gentoo hosting and have |
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> portage/pkgcore installed, but your limited user account forces you to |
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> use prefix because it's better.... |
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> Good luck |
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I think you look for a business model, and yes we don't have one. We're |
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open source. We're .org. We're just for fun. I'm sure there is a need |
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for what you do, which is proven by your user-base, but it's from a |
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totally different angle than ours. In my opinion, you and I can't |
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competitors at all. On the contrary, we can help each other with |
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patches for applications we both want to use. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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