Re: [gentoo-project] Some focus for Gentoo

[Zac Medico]

On 01/14/2015 01:46 PM, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> writes:
>
>> On 01/13/2015 07:43 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> Wanted to share my thoughts on where I think Gentoo should go, in terms
>>> of direction. Would love to hear your thoughts.
>>>
>>> http://dberkholz.com/2015/01/13/gentoo-needs-focus-to-stay-relevant/
>>>
>>
>> I think that improved binary package support will allow Gentoo to
>> compete with binary distros, making Gentoo applicable to a much wider
>> audience.
>
> As far as I understand we should focus on something that other distros
> fail at.  (I'm not saying we should ignore binary package support, but
> definitely it's place is not in top-3.)

Well, maybe you could say that other distros fail at providing an
extremely flexible build-system to feed their binary package
repositories? If you look at it this way, Gentoo's missing piece is the
binary package repository support.

Thanks,
Zac