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Cedric Veilleux writes: |
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> Gentoo already supports binary packages anyways [...]. We're only |
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> talking about improving it AFAIK.. What's wrong with improving some |
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> features of portage if it's possible and if it won't hurt anyone? |
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There are about a gazillion different Linux distributions out |
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there, and all of them have their own bunch of supporters, who can |
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get quite emotional arguing why _their_ system is superior to the |
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rest. This fact suggests that different people have different needs |
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and taste -- and that makes it quite obviously impossible to build |
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a system everybody will like. |
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Considering this, Gentoo should identify its core strength and |
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focus on _that_, because _that_ is the reason why its users prefer |
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Gentoo over all the other systems. Trying to attract users from |
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other groups with features they might like, but about which your |
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core users do not care, is a foolish thing to do. All you'll |
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achieve is messing up a wonderful distribution. |
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Now, I cannot speak for others, but the reason why _I_ use Gentoo |
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is because it is source-code--based and clean. Binary distributions |
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are of no interest to me. What I care for is to get the technically |
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most ad'fucking'vanced source-code--based Linux distribution known |
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to man. Let's be honest: Binary distributions are for men with no |
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hair on their chest. Mouse pushers. Let them use SuSE. They don't |
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deserve better. |
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Peter |
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P. S.: My god, we Genntoo users are the best, aren't we? :-) |
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