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El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 16:25, Grant Edwards escribió: |
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> On 2009-02-04, Jes?s Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es> wrote: |
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>> El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 8:39, Alan McKinnon escribi?: |
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>>> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:27:31 Christopher Walters wrote: |
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>>> I personally don't view Gentoo as a "distro" in the traditional |
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>>> sense. To me, it's a build system, an app - portage or paludis - and |
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>>> the devs that make cool input files for that app. Building a distro |
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>>> from scratch for embedded devices is a painful process if you don't |
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>>> have an automated build system. It's not quite a trivial exercise, but |
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>>> portage does make it a whole lot easier. |
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>> That's mostly what I call a "metadistro". A set of tools and |
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>> instructions to build a proper distro that suits you, and maintain it. |
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> Except that what you build and maintain isn't a "distro", it's |
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> a single machine. |
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That I only know ;) |
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It's up to you if you reuse the distro on a second machine |
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or on a whole cluster. And certainly, Gentoo provide the means |
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to reutilize whatever you compiled and configured on many machines, |
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like with catalyst and the newer metro tool from drobbins. |
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Jesús Guerrero |
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