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That should be "QED" if and only if the naming scheme the car industry has |
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chosen is indeed the correct thing to do. |
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The car analogy isn't so useful becuase it's important that we do what's |
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right, not that we do what already has a precedent. Gentoo is Portage. |
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Portage needs GNU utilities like a fish needs a bicycle. |
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Wes |
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On 25 Sep 2002, Greg Corcoran wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 04:35, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > To take this into the car analogies. |
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> > The car called Linux or Gnu linux |
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> > Engine: made by Linus Torvalds & co. branded linux |
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> > Gearbox: made by FSF branded glibc |
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> > and so on with other pieces ... |
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> Excellent points! |
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> This means that the Integrators (the Gentoo developers) are really |
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> building the OS from parts from different suppliers. |
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> These parts are put together as defined by the "system" profile. This is |
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> the base OS. |
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> QED the proper name is: |
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> Gentoo(TM) OS |
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> Greg |
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