On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > A mountain of packages and their corresponding effects on the system, ...
> It also invalidates many processes that myself and others have been > training in the field, such as usage of rpm/yum, how to write spec > files, etc. These two points are incredibly important. We do not use Fedora superficially -- we use it "in depth" to achieve some unique features. And while the 'core dev' team is familiar with Debian/Ubuntu, Gentoo and a few other linuxen, the OLPC ecosystem involves people who have made important investments in learning this toolchain. The third point is that the polish of the whole product comes down to subtle interactions between the components. We work hard to make everything Just Work for the components and hardware of a given release, and it takes time and work. Doing it for another distro takes... time and work. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel