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One of the great qualities of Gentoo is the fast pace at which new software |
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versions make it into portage. |
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In terms of "how will it sell" one thing to consider is that it takes less |
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time and effort to type up2date -u (or nearly any other binary pkg system) |
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than to emerge sync && emerge -u world. |
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If Gentoo is going in the direction of providing releases on schedule, |
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ensuring one release has certain versions of certain programs and isn't |
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interfered with by future releases, can it be done without cutting away the |
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flexibility? |
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Are we going to have a gentoo-1.4-enterprise, gentoo-2.0-enterprise etc |
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portage tree, each release being maintained independent of the others? |
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It seems maintaining old release trees aren't "fun jobs" and might require |
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commercial intervention to get anyone interested enough to maintain them. |
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I think Gentoo does so well at staying up to date because the developers are |
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the users, they all want the latest XYZ so someone writes an ebuild and in a |
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flash there it is. Will there be the same level of volenteer motivation |
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toward maintaining the security patches on a two year old release? |
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Making an 'enterprise' Gentoo will require a solid plan of action that will |
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enable people to sell it to management, some sort of guarantee, and I look |
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forward to hearing how all that will work. |
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Regards, |
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Matt |
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