On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 18.05.11 16:34, Dave Neary ([email protected]) wrote: > >> Are you sure you're not taking the GNOME OS idea a bit far here? Are we >> going to start depending on kernels carrying specific patch sets next? >> Or specifying which package management system we expect GNOME >> distributors to choose? > > I have not said anything about package management systems or which Linux > distros people should use. Please don't put wordsin my mouth. What you > are doing here is not helpful at all. > > I have said something about OS kernels, more spefifically APIs. > > I am not sure what you consider the "OS" part of "GNOME OS" means, but > I'd claim that the core piece of an OS is the kernel. > > Lennart >
And a core piece of an OS is its package management system. If "GNOME OS" is an idea that warrants a hard dependency on Linux it's not far fetched to ask what other parts between the kernel and GNOME (ie. everything) are expected to be included as well. Cheers, Evandro _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
