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On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:19 +0100, Simon Stelling wrote: |
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> My point is, either you have to generalize each project's goal to a real |
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> triviality or you have to define a goal which doesn't match some |
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> project's goals. Conclusion: Let it be. |
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Maybe we are looking at this problem the wrong way. Instead of trying |
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to have Gentoo be the distro, perhaps Gentoo can be thought of as a |
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provider of infrastructure and tools to allow 'sub-distros' to flourish. |
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THere are many projects which now are trying to pull Gentoo in many |
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different directions, such as bianary distro vs. enterprise distro. If |
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we remove "Gentoo as distro" from out thinking and replace it with |
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"Gentoo as provider of tools and infrastucture", These two seemingly |
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contradictory goals can each flourish in their own way. |
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Haveing sub-distros, lack of a better term, is not new to Gentoo. |
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Hardened has their own LiveCD, profile and tools. I feel this can be |
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nurtured. Allowing the Binanary group to move in one direction, and |
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'tweakers' in an other, and die-hard security people in yet another, |
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while not severely conficting with each other. |
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Maybe what we need is a clearer definition of what each herd does? I am |
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considering writing a GLEP about this, having each herd answer three |
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questions periodicly (say 6mths). |
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- What do we want to do? |
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- How are we going to get there? |
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- How to we measure success? |
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and /maybe/ add a section about current devs and AT/HTs. |
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Just a thought. |
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