Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

[Andrew Muraco]

Lares Moreau wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:19 +0100, Simon Stelling wrote:
>
>
>>My point is, either you have to generalize each project's goal to a real
>>triviality or you have to define a goal which doesn't match some
>>project's goals. Conclusion: Let it be.
>>
>>
>
>Maybe we are looking at this problem the wrong way.  Instead of trying
>to have Gentoo be the distro, perhaps Gentoo can be thought of as a
>provider of infrastructure and tools to allow 'sub-distros' to flourish.
>
>THere are many projects which now are trying to pull Gentoo in many
>different directions, such as bianary distro vs. enterprise distro.  If
>we remove "Gentoo as distro" from out thinking and replace it with
>"Gentoo as provider of tools and infrastucture", These two seemingly
>contradictory goals can each flourish in their own way.
>
>Haveing sub-distros, lack of a better term, is not new to Gentoo.
>Hardened has their own LiveCD, profile and tools.  I feel this can be
>nurtured. Allowing the Binanary group to move in one direction, and
>'tweakers' in an other, and die-hard security people in yet another,
>while not severely conficting with each other.
>
>
>Maybe what we need is a clearer definition of what each herd does?  I am
>considering writing a GLEP about this, having each herd answer three
>questions periodicly (say 6mths).
> - What do we want to do?
> - How are we going to get there?
> - How to we measure success?
>and /maybe/ add a section about current devs and AT/HTs.
>Just a thought.
>
>

I like your idea of having gentoo not being a distro, but moreso a 
collection of tools. Mostly because gentoo's method of dealing with 
problems (problems that binary distros tend to have, like keeping 
software uptodate) are handled in a way thats just a tad more managable, 
plus when multiple repo support gets added, its just another way that 
gentoo can be customized and reflavored.

+1 for that thinking

Tux
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