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Jason Cooper wrote: |
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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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>>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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This is tricky but consider, Gentoo is a metadistribution meaning it's a |
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"distribution of distributions", any distribution built with Gentoo is |
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itself also Gentoo. An embedded system built from scratch using portage |
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(even if not on the same system/arch) is Gentoo, even if the resulting |
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system doesn't need/use portage.. |
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On the other side, using portage as a complimentary package manager to |
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build non-system applications (such as on OSX, Solaris, IRIX, etc) is |
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not Gentoo because the system wasn't resultant from a Gentoo installation. |
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It works, embedded is Gentoo but Portage on non-self-hosted OS's isn't, |
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as my 'definitions' are no doubt very confusing I'd like to stick with |
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what Swift has put. |
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Joshua Brindle |
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