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On Saturday 31 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:13:18 +0100 |
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> Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:50:59 +0100 |
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> > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > > A few years ago Gentoo had some serious advantages over the |
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> > > competition. These days, Gentoo is at serious risk of being Red |
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> > > Queened by Ubuntu and Fedora. Providing the same thing that was |
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> > > provided two years ago isn't enough. If Portage can't deliver |
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> > > functionality that makes Gentoo competitive with where Ubuntu will |
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> > > be a year from now, Portage has to be replaced. |
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> > You seem to be under the misapprehension that Portage == Gentoo. |
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> No no, I'm saying that at present Portage is one of Gentoo's most |
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> severe limiting factors. |
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In which case your Paludis fork of Gentoo will take off like a scalded cat, |
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and the world will come racing to your door begging for your Mk II version of |
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Gentoo. Go for it, the GPL ensures that you have nothing to lose. Others have |
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done it with varying degrees of success. Kororaa and Sabayon come to mind |
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immediatly, and I seem to remember a very early fork which foundered pretty |
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quickly. |
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I have been using Gentoo for many years, since the 1.2 release anyway. |
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For me, what separates Gentoo from the others is - in order: |
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1) The ease of updating the file-set and installing new packages. Say what you |
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like against it, Portage does what it was designed to do for the user very |
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effectively. ok the tree breaks occasionally, but to err is human, and I have |
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no difficulty accepting that fact; |
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2) The superb quality of the documentation. By and large, it's well written |
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and actually understandable, and that's a rarity in this field of endeavour; |
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3) The IRC channels and the support fora are second to none for getting a |
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quick answer to the current question. |
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Without doubt, while Portage may not equate to Gentoo, it is the single |
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feature which has branded Gentoo as being what it is. |
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