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Hi All, |
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I've been thinking about the perceived lack of progress in Gentoo a bit. And |
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somehow it doesn't fit - there are so many nice things. What I did notice |
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though is a lack of communication. Sometimes you mention "Hey, would be great |
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if we had X" on IRC and three people point you at different implementations |
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of the thing you've been searching for the last three months. |
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Here's my challenge to you: Point out and describe the cool things that other |
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people might not now. Small helper apps, overlays with crazy stuff, ricer |
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patches and whatever else you can think of. |
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I can think of a few well known ones: |
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eix, the fast search tool for portage. Really shiny. |
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OpenRC - Awesome init system. It's deviously fast and makes Fedora look like a |
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relict of the 70s |
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Layman - started as a small helper script, now gives access to around 3000 |
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ebuilds (or even more, I haven't counted them in a while) |
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Portage - with 2.2 on the horizon there are some neat features (like sets and |
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obsoleting revdep-rebuild) |
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I'd really appreciate a few pointers at your pet projects, shiny new things |
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and even half-baked ideas that are far from being usable. Just show us what |
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is out there waiting to be polished, packaged and used by legions of happy |
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users! |
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Thanks, |
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Patrick |
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