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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:37:07PM -0600, Gabriel wrote: |
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> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jerry A! wrote: |
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> > Actually, base system isn't only FSF. The default tarball used |
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> > BerkeleyDB, OpenSSH, Perl (which while is GPL'd, isn't owned by the |
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> > FSF), etc... |
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> I meant "the mythical not yet provided base system", which I suppose would |
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> make it not Gentoo. I have a dream of bootstrapping to a minimal system, and |
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> having an ebuild for every package at ftp.gnu.org. I wonder what RMS would |
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> do once he actually had what he asked for. |
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Well, not all GNU software is at ftp.gnu.org. Berkeley DB is developed at |
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Sleepycat Software, and glibc depends on it. Many "official" GNU programs |
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depend on "unofficial" GNU programs to either build or run. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |