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Sven Vermeulen (swift@g.o) scribbled: |
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> When you take a look at our current social contract |
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> (http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml) you will read that it talks |
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> about "Gentoo Linux" exclusively. However, with Gentoo growing and non-Linux |
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> ports in the make, it might be wise to change the naming from "Gentoo Linux" |
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> to "Gentoo". |
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> The main question however is: "What is Gentoo"? When will we talk about |
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> "Gentoo" and when do we talk about "a project" that "the Gentoo Project" is |
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> working on? |
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> Based on the feedback I gathered from the managers meeting and from |
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> developers, I'd like to propose something along the following lines: |
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> """ |
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> We call a collection of software "Gentoo" when: |
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> - it in total is able to boot itself (self-hosting) |
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> - it is actively developed by the Gentoo Project |
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> - its main software management application is a native Portage |
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What about an embedded system whose image was created using embedded |
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gentoo tools, but contains no package management? Or a minimal package |
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management system (ipkg/apkg)? Would that fall under "Embedded Gentoo" |
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or "Gentoo" or some customized thing? |
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