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On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:13:10 +1200 |
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Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@××××××××××××.nz> wrote: |
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> In which case your Paludis fork of Gentoo will take off like a |
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> scalded cat, and the world will come racing to your door begging for |
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> your Mk II version of Gentoo. Go for it, the GPL ensures that you |
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> have nothing to lose. Others have done it with varying degrees of |
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> success. Kororaa and Sabayon come to mind immediatly, and I seem to |
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> remember a very early fork which foundered pretty quickly. |
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Paludis is a package manager, not a distribution. And no, the GPL does |
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not mean there's nothing to lose -- the Zynot fork did a fair bit of |
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damage to Gentoo, and no-one wants a repeat of that mess... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |