Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper Gentoo Name (was License criteria for Gentoo)

[Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 03:23, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 September 2002 21:57, wes chow wrote:
> >
> > Good point... here's the subtle difference that I overlooked:  Gentoo is
> > Portage plus a collection of ebuilds.  The analogy, then, is that RedHat
> > and SuSE use the same distribution method (RPMs), but consist of packages
> > built by a different group of people.  (note, I have zero experience with
> > SuSE, so I could be far off the mark)  Thus, if you rip out Portage and
> 
> That's about right
> 
> > start your own collection of ebuilds, you will no longer have a Gentoo
> > system.  I think this is a resonable distinction, because a different
> > group of developers would manage that collection and have its own set of
> > bugs and userbase and file layout, etc.
> >
> 
> That's how I see it.
> 

Not true at all, Gentoo is also the whole init system (scripting and
tmpfs sides), try doing env-update or rc-update add sshd default on
another distro.

There is a lot more to Gentoo than portage or the ebuilds we supply for
users.  It is unlike any of the RedHat or the knockoffs (Mandrake, etc)
in that Gentoo actually brought something _new_ to the table, and it was
more than a little something.

Mark