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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev and /usr
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:54:21
Message-Id: CADqQcK4+oGMWt2SfyRcoGYs7Y0OCcUsUTMSpTGrFdzM15uzpMw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev and /usr by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:59, Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >> I'm a bit concerned that the future of linux on the desktop is going to be
4 >> one where your choices are things like Android, ChromeOS, Ubuntu, Gnome OS,
5 >> or a "KDE OS."  Each one would have its own package managers, repositories,
6 >> distros, APIs, etc.  Clearly there is some benefit from the vertical
7 >> integration (Android and ChromeOS have a very high level of polish, and
8 >> Ubuntu is approaching this often by just writing their own stuff).  Instead
9 >> of working to influence other projects (which can be frustrating), big
10 >> distros are looking to just eliminate dependencies outside of themselves.
11 >> This will be a big challenge for a smaller distro like Gentoo.  Obviously we
12 >> can't just go write our own Wayland replacement, even if we did essentially
13 >> make our own "systemd" of sorts.
14 >
15 > you're aware the ChromeOS is built on top of / with Gentoo right ?
16
17 "Gentoo" is defined by portage and the portage tree. If we remove
18 that, the end result is no different than compiling stuff manually in
19 Slackware or by hand.
20
21 --
22 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
23
24 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev and /usr Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>