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Og asked, rhetorically, who are we, and who we target. i'd say we are what we are, no more, no less. the (harsh ?) reality is that - right now - we are yet another linux distro. what differentiates us is that we are the only one that uses a 'next-generation' package manager (conary). _but_ as good and powerfull as conary may be (and it is) conary is 'just' a package manager. It's not that it isn't _very_ important it is, but a distro is more than what glues it, a distro is the sum of all its packages, and some more. so, the _right_ question to ask is not who we are, but what we need. We have conary, we have the passion, and - guess what - we even have users and 'design wins'. IMHO what we need more is more people/developers whose interests goes a _bit_ above pkg foo or pkg bar, caring and understanding about how the different subsystems interact between them. This, has few to do with conary. In fact, in a sense, conary ends hurting us, as by being so damn easy and powerful, almost invites one to 'always' start the house from the 'roof', and to forget one needs not only to know how to package but also, and as well, what is being packaged. In this regard we have a clear disadvantage. All the relevant 'alternatives' have paid staff doing the 'unsexy' stuff, leaving to the 'community' the 'sexy' one - packages at the top of the 'stack'. So, our first and immediate priority is to get our developer community to know _really_ well our intrinsics, to document them well, to lower the entry curve, and to attract more developers from the outside. _then_ all gets easy(er). In our genome is pragmatism, not fundamentalism, giving choice, not imposing, in short - putting the users where they deserve - in 1st place. Don't be deluded by the appearances, no one ever will know everything about all foresight bits, so every and each of us, should give a pause and think about which small part of foresight we want to 'adopt'/herd ? Not to just track some random package to make sure we have the very latest, but to 'know' its mood, to find if a given update is relevant for us, if not, or if it will impact other packages. Then, step by step, we'll get what we deserve. Only a matter of time. These, above, are IMHO the general issues we must handle; On a following post, i 'll enter on the gory technical details. All the best, António Meireles, aka doniphon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko3vT4ACgkQhzTLuPPhq852igCg7BUVk3BvTnZn4dqT+k0RGKxr DgcAmgILJkDpwhAP54mCkHaV1Z8qYaV2 =WFjX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
