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On Monday 22 May 2006 17:29, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Jon Portnoy wrote: [Mon May 22 2006, 09:38:23AM CDT] |
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> > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:21:34AM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> > > Please don't change your wording on that. The feel really strongly |
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> > > about the primary pkg manager of Gentoo needing remain under the |
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> > > full control of Gentoo Linux. |
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> > |
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> > Agreed, I'm of the opinion it would be inappropriate to let an |
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> > outside entity steer our primary package manager. |
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> I'm not sure I understand why. After all, mandriva, suse, ubuntu, and |
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> many others have survived quite well. More to the point, though, it's |
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> not clear to me what awful things happen if Gentoo does not own the |
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> package manager code, as long as that code is under a reasonable |
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> license. Suppose that such a package manager did became a Gentoo |
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> default, and at some point the program diverged from what Gentoo really |
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> wanted; wouldn't Gentoo then just fork the package manager? Am I |
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> missing something obvious? |
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There are serious costs involved with forking something. For gentoo this |
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would include image problems by being seen as "evil" forkers. Also |
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mandriva, suse, ubuntu etc. distinguish themselves from the pack in which |
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packages are offered in which configuration. Gentoo differs from that in |
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that users can determine the configuration. The package manager directly |
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influences the freedom available for the users. Making binary and source |
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distros not easilly comparable. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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