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On Dec 16, 2007 2:09 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Do you have a list of significant improvements you want implemented? |
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> There were gaping holes in linux's abilities in the past. These |
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> problems have been fixed. Change simply for the sake of change is a |
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> relic of the Windows era. |
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Ya, but let me remind you that Gentoo did not reach the perfect stage |
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of "nothing more can be done to improve it". |
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IMHO, there is one major project that Gentoo should start. Gentoo is a |
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distro -I don't remember who told us Gentoo is not a distro, but it |
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is- because there is something called portage tree. It is not just an |
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LFS with a package manager (to do that, please read |
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http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ and install a portage tarball), |
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because Gentoo provides thousands of packages that are maintained by |
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gentoo devs. No more confusion, Gentoo IS a distro. |
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Well, Grant -among others- is wondering about Gentoo future, and some |
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difficulties that Gentoo currently faces. I love the efforts of some |
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gentooers to claim that everything is okay in Gentoo world, they may |
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skip the goodbye posts of all the leaving developers on the dev list, |
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or may ignore the understaffed teams, but .... well, Grant, you are |
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not stupid to wonder about future and your questions are not silly. |
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Some improvement that can be done ? Someone reports difficulties for |
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non-dev to become official dev or contribute. I think about something |
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that EVERY linux distro lacks today. I am dreaming about a clear |
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package tree representation. I mean, there is |
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http://packages.gentoo.org/ for users to know which package are at |
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disposal on which architectures, and so on. Let's imagine what a |
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distro web site should provide... (not only on the web site but also |
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integrated into the pkg management software) the categorized packages |
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list, with search features of course, with ALL the information |
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attached to each package, like the needs for maintainers as an |
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example. There is neither announcements about the future ebuild |
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releases, nor the Gentoo policy about this package... I think that |
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this kind of information can be a good interface between official devs |
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and the community to encourage new people to become devs, or to simply |
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provide a better view on the current status of the portage tree and |
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the near future. |
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The package maintenance is a really hard task that requires lots of |
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resources. OK. But there is a lack of resources. Is there actually |
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nothing to do ? Is the automation of the package built with all USE |
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flags combination and tests already done ? Are you sure that there is |
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no process improvement possible (about the non-regression tests |
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delivered with ebuilds) ? There is just one point on which I am sure |
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.... it is hard for non-dev to know how things turn on. |
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Gal' |
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