Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian

[james <garftd@verizon.net>]

On 08/12/2016 10:39 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:12:22 -0500
> james <garftd@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> (also, I'm not hung up on 'Jentoo' as a name; perhaps 'Gintoo'?
>>
>> (peace && hth),
>> James
>
> Way outside the scope needed here. However we pull off Zhenchoo, its
> going to be built on top of portage and our package management with
> extra bling.
>
> That's what is necessary to empower people with "ready built" machines
> to customize it in the direction of a "natural gentoo install"
>
> All this converstation details is:
>
> - Is a given technique good
> - Can it be installed in tree without breaking things
> - How do we do that
> - Is there a place we can do it where the problem is isolated to a
>   narrow spectrum of users to limit potential fallout
> - Is this a "Put warning bells on it and let users blow off their own
>   feet and then don't do it by default"[1] thing.
> - Can this be a "Just package.mask the problem on hardened" thing.
>
> All of those can be combined in some way to get and end result by
> whoever ships the stage 4 the way they want to do it. They can use an
> overlay if they want.
>
> Nothing is stopping them :)
>
> Other than themselves of course.
>

That simple huh?

Ok, show us a solution based on your dashed items, for the current
Valve/Steam/issues, and wrap up those very cool aforementioned games 
into a stage 4?

I'd even settle for a liveDVD on that..... Remember::
Nothing is stopping you, other than yourself of course....


James