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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:19:25PM +0100 or thereabouts, Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> So heres the cheeky proposal... make a "redhat" release. Follow redhats |
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> release cycle, and match their versions. Use their backported fixes. |
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> Commercial software will work. Bugs will be fixed. This is the power of open |
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> source. |
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You're making a HUGE assumption that red hat compiles from the same sources |
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we compile from. That's simply not the case. Kernels, glibc, gcc, etc. |
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almost always have a number of patches that they add. You cannot make the |
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blanket statement that commercial software will work. More importantly, |
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you can't make the assumption that commercial software *companies* will |
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support their products on Gentoo, even if we're using the same version |
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numbers of key packages. |
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--kurt |
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