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On 10/06/16 12:38, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> So, I was chatting with an Exherbo dev. Their model isn't quite |
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> what your earlier emails seemed to suggest (at least as I read |
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> it). |
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You should get them to reply to this thread, because... |
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> As I understand it the Exherbo way |
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Having spoken with an Exherbo developer (Ciaran, who's replied here), |
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and an Exherbo user, I don't think you understand "the Exherbo way". |
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> The impression that I got from your earlier emails is that you're |
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> advocating a highly decentralized bottom-up system, where everybody |
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> just publishes their packages and people borrow from each other's |
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> work, and the behavior of the overall distro is fairly emergent. |
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I am advocating a *modular* system more so than a decentralised system. |
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> You suggested at one point that the need for what we call |
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> developers could almost go away. |
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I did not. |
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> Now you're talking about having centralized core/base packages, |
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> which obviously necessitates developers. Maybe your concept is |
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> that the core/base packages are a very small subset of what we have |
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> today. |
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Yes! So you *do* get it. |
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> I still think you're underestimating the need for centralization. |
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> What you call a "core/base" package is probably going to end up |
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> being anything listed in a dependency. That is a LOT of packages, |
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> actually - we're not just talking about libc and zlib. |
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It's not a lot compared to how many we have today. |
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Alexander |
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bernalex@g.o |
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https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander |
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