On Monday 22 May 2006 18:30, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 22/05/06, Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are serious costs involved with forking something. For gentoo this > > would include image problems by being seen as "evil" forkers. > > Surely such decisions should be based on technical merit, and not > political? The technical cost of forking is small.
Only if we have people actively working with the code. Otherwise we need people to get to know the code first. > I'm not sure I follow this line of reasoning - other distros can have > external package managers because their users have less freedom? Are > you concerned about the political effect of there being less to > distinguish Gentoo from clones, or the fact that an external package > manager might somehow seek to limit users freedom to determine > configurations? What I meant to say is that even if it ok for binary distributions to have external package managers, this can not be taken one-to-one for gentoo. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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