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>> I'm slowly coming to conclsuion that you are trying to solve a problem |
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>> with Gentoo that binary distros already solved a very long time ago. You |
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>> are forcing yourself to become the sole maintainer of GrantOS and do all |
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>> the heavy lifting of packaging. But, Mint and friends already did all |
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>> that work already and frankly, they are much better at it than you or I. |
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>> > I think it will work if I can find a way to manage the few differences |
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>> > above. Am I overlooking any potential issues? |
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> I think Grant Should look at CFengine, if he is not familar |
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> with it. It is the traditional 800 pound Gorrilla when it comes |
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> to managing many systems. Surely there are folks there in those |
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> forums that can help Grant filter his ideas until they are |
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> ready for action. CFengine is in portage. |
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> Alan may be right, as CFengine (or whatever) may work better |
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> with a binary distribution and is probable more tightly integrated |
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> with something like debian or such OSes. |
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Can you give me a general idea of how my workflow might be with a |
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solution like that? |
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- Grant |
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