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On 18/01/2015 04:04, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Jan 17, 2015 1:56 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 2015-01-16, Paul B. Henson <henson@×××.org> wrote: |
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>>> http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/ |
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>>> So it seems the reason (in Lennart Poettering's imagination at least) |
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>>> that Gentoo hasn't embraced systemd as our default init system is |
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>>> because we're all old and conservative? |
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>> No, it's because we're practical and view computers as means to get |
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>> things done rather than ends in themselves to be put inside |
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>> transparent cases with fans that light up. |
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> Speak for yourself. :) I did comment on my thoughts in this area in |
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> Donnie's thread. Gentoo (IMHO) tends not to be the best distro for |
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> doing anything in particular. I find that its best feature is that it |
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> is reasonably good at doing just about anything - it is a |
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> jack-of-all-trades. |
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For years I've felt Gentoo excels if you need to do something that |
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deviates from what mainstream binary distros do, and this is because we |
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have a fully functional toolchain that is built to handle deviations |
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from default with ease. This is what USE is all about. |
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A few examples come to mind: |
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1. You have a large server farm, all identical, and setting them up that |
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way on a binary distro is difficult |
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2. You need to build on big hardware and deploy on small hardware |
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3. You need specific features enabled in the system that a binary distro |
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doesn't provide |
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So I'm not quite in agreement with your last sentence; Gentoo is very |
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very good at giving you exactly what you want :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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