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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:21:49
Message-Id: 20040811052119.4e0cb049@andy.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again) by Chris Bainbridge
1 On 08/10/04 Chris Bainbridge wrote:
2
3 > So heres the cheeky proposal... make a "redhat" release. Follow
4 > redhats release cycle, and match their versions. Use their backported
5 > fixes. Commercial software will work. Bugs will be fixed. This is the
6 > power of open source.
7
8 In that case you can just use Redhat instead. There is no point in
9 customizing our tree to behave like a Redhat release (e.g. what do you
10 do about baselayout, the initsystem, the new webapp-config, ...).
11
12 This would create a lot of work for us for (IMO) no benefit at all.
13
14 Marius

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again) Chris Bainbridge <chrb@g.o>