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Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> posted |
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20060807141821.GI25236@××××××.local, excerpted below, on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 |
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16:18:21 +0200: |
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> Grandma wants to click, okay, so she should use graphical applications. |
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> She's not interested what sits behind, she just wants to have a buch of |
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> applications. And she also doesn't wann have anything to do with emerge |
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> and useflags. She just wants to have a choice between a bunch of end-user |
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> applications. That's the job of an Grandma-(sub-)distro. |
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... And it's not the job of Gentoo, which is targeted at those who enjoy |
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having those extra knobs to twist, to get the package just the way they |
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want. That's it's strength. |
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If you want a distribution that's easy for someone not interested in |
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command line emerge and learning about USE flags, there are other |
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distributions, much stronger in those areas, while in turn being much |
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weaker in the areas Gentoo excels in. |
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Of course, it is also said that Gentoo is a meta-distribution. There are |
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already a number of specially targeted distributions based on Gentoo, in |
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part because Gentoo exposes the knobs to tweak, making it relatively easy |
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to do so, and aim the result at a particular niche. It'd be perfectly |
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acceptable to create another such Gentoo based distribution and hide all |
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those knobs, replacing them with preconfigured choices, but that's not for |
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Gentoo as a meta-distribution to do, but for downstream to do, should they |
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decide to base their distribution on Gentoo. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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