On 1/3/07, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip]
Another drawback is that you are now a QA department of one. When something in a package beaks, why did it break? What was it compiled against? What options were used? What optimisations? You may very well have a very unique package, and the Gentoo maintainer (or whatever the equivalent is) could be at a complete loss.
If I were a linux distribution... ... I would use gentoo/portage, or perhaps automated linux from scratch (never tried this), as my meta distribution. To me, it would be best as follows: 1st level: upstream developers (kernel, libs, & desktop of appropriate faith) 2nd level: integrators (portage or linux from scratch like tools) 3rd level: localizers and usergroup-specific enhancements The QA guys would mostly be at levels 1 & 2. But many different distros could exist at level 3, but benefit from combined effort at level 2. -Jeff -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
