Daniel Robbins is the original project founder of Gentoo (and, later, Funtoo) and the author of its Portage (BSD Ports-like) package management system.
In regards to that, though, GNU already has GSRC, which is based on GAR (another Ports-like system) and puts to use other GNU software such as Make, wget and Bazaar. That, coupled with Stow and a Bash script binding all that functionality together (or a basic GTK interface to do it), means that GNU already effectively has a system like Portage without having to write anything more than maybe a bit of glue code or a GUI. -brandon On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 20:07 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > If I understood correctly, Daniel Robbins is currently writing a new > version of portage. My feeling is that we need experienced hackers on > this project. And another way to launch such a project could be to use > an existing distro. Nobody asked for that, but my dream is to initiate a > dialogue between Daniel and RMS > > I don't recognize the name, but I could talk with him if that is > useful. First, however, I need to know what the starting situation > is. What is his attitude towards GNU and towards the free software > movement? > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation > 51 Franklin St > Boston MA 02110 > USA > www.fsf.org www.gnu.org > Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. > Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/ >
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