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Lance Albertson wrote: [Fri Jan 06 2006, 09:27:23AM CST] |
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> As seen from the discussion earlier this week, I don't think Gentoo has |
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> the proper open-mindness to create a proper enterprise distro. There are |
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> too many things that would get in the way of Gentoo proper to make it |
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> work right. I agree with Duncan that the best route is an outside |
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> project so that they don't have the constraints of Gentoo proper. Trying |
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> to inflict the ideals of an enterprise distro into Gentoo right now will |
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> be an uphill battle the whole way. Just look at all the comments made |
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> from my thread earlier. You cannot make an enterprise distro without |
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> focus or direction and a leader. You'll be stuck in committee decisions |
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> all the time. |
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I understand that you are naturally disheartened that the discussion you |
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started did not end as you would have liked. Fair enough, but I think |
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you should also take another look at that body of responses. Many were, |
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indeed, sulky "I don't wanna leader" comments, but there were also a |
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number of well-written, cogently-argued replies both in favor of and |
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opposed to what you wrote. All in all, I would say that the discussion |
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you started was a net "win" for Gentoo. (Of course, I also happen to |
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disagree with your premise, so I'm biased, but I hope that I'm |
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open-minded enough that I would feel the same if the results had gone |
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the other way.) Indeed, I suggest that this reasonably well-behaved |
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discussion indicates that the Gentoo community is rather open-minded |
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itself. |
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Addressing your point about Enterprise Gentoo, I think you're probably |
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right about it needing focus, direction, and a leader, but that's quite |
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different from needing Gentoo as a whole to have any of those. The |
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Gentoo *BSD work is a good example of how much can be done by a team |
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> Not saying its impossible, but it won't be easy. |
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Absolutely true. That said, there's relatively little resistance to the |
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concept of Enterprise Gentoo, as far as I know. There is substantial |
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resistance to anything that might add additional work to |
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already-overwhelmed package maintainers, however, and I believe that |
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the lack of an acceptable solution there is what stalled things the last |
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time around. |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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