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Jon Portnoy wrote: [Mon May 22 2006, 09:38:23AM CDT] |
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> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:21:34AM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> > Please don't change your wording on that. The feel really strongly |
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> > about the primary pkg manager of Gentoo needing remain under the full |
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> > control of Gentoo Linux. |
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> > |
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> Agreed, I'm of the opinion it would be inappropriate to let an outside |
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> entity steer our primary package manager. |
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I'm not sure I understand why. After all, mandriva, suse, ubuntu, and |
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many others have survived quite well. More to the point, though, it's |
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not clear to me what awful things happen if Gentoo does not own the |
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package manager code, as long as that code is under a reasonable |
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license. Suppose that such a package manager did became a Gentoo |
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default, and at some point the program diverged from what Gentoo really |
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wanted; wouldn't Gentoo then just fork the package manager? Am I |
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missing something obvious? |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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