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On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 15:03 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> > Lance mentioned something about what he sees is a niche where Gentoo |
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> > does quite well. "Produce the best software distribution, ever" sounds |
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> > a bit vague to me. That's why I agree with Lance for now. Maybe after |
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> > a little research, trial and error period it turns out to be better to |
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> > keep the target vague. |
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> Yeah, if we're content to being a hobbyist distro, then that mission |
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> statement will work. But, the technology behind Gentoo has far broader |
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> benefits for various things. Especially with the recent work of the alt |
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> related subprojects, embedded, etc ... its changing. Like for me, I |
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> would love to use the portage technology to build packages for solaris |
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> machines I maintain at work. |
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While I do agree with you here there's still the problem that each and |
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every one of us has his (or her or its) own idea what "we" should do. |
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Some want the ricer flags and tweakability. |
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Others want to see one package manager to rule them all. |
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Then there's the "because we can" group. |
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The enterprise-oriented persons. |
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I wonder ... can we have one precise mission statement without |
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alienating a big part of our user base? |
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> We have a build system currently, but its |
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> nothing like portage. Gentoo is more than just Linux now and we should |
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> have goals that fit that. |
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I guess some people would like to disagree there. (Not me, I like that |
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whole "metadistribution thingy, it's the way to world domination) |
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> When I say "we have a niche we're perfect at", |
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> I'm mainly referring to the source-based nature of our OS. There isn't |
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> another distro out there that does it as well as us and we should |
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> improve on that fact. Let the other distros get better at being |
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> binary-based. |
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Why would one prevent the other from happening? |
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Maybe someone finds an elegant way for "Binary Gentoo" ... should we |
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stop that person because it conflicts with a weird mission statement? |
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Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move |
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