On 2009-02-04, Jes?s Guerrero <i92gu...@terra.es> wrote: > El Mie, 4 de Febrero de 2009, 8:39, Alan McKinnon escribi?: >> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 09:27:31 Christopher Walters wrote: >> >> I personally don't view Gentoo as a "distro" in the traditional sense. To >> me, it's a build system, an app - portage or paludis - and the devs that >> make cool input files for that app. Building a distro from scratch for >> embedded devices is a painful process if you don't have an automated build >> system. It's not quite a trivial exercise, but portage does make it a >> whole lot easier. > > That's mostly what I call a "metadistro". A set of tools and > instructions to build a proper distro that suits you, and maintain > it.
Except that what you build and maintain isn't a "distro", it's a single machine. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Are you still an at ALCOHOLIC? visi.com