From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7706 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Sep 2003 19:01:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4137 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2003 19:01:03 -0000 From: Brad Laue Reply-To: brad@gentoo.org To: Sven Vermeulen Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030915183907.GA8162@gentoo.org> References: <1063641562.12338.7.camel@Discovery.brad-x.com> <20030915180400.GB8026@gentoo.org> <1063650629.13890.3.camel@Discovery.brad-x.com> <20030915183907.GA8162@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Message-Id: <1063652709.14124.4.camel@Discovery.brad-x.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:05:09 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4.1 and GRP X-Archives-Salt: cb02450d-7155-4d0d-a20f-88fc213eff1f X-Archives-Hash: 4344958335e6f0fc88f9ae3b949e1b25 On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 14:39, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > I'm sure you've tried Debian or any other distribution then, because that's > exactly what they do. They provide you with a quick and easy installation of > binary packages. For the packages you want optimization, they provide an easy > way to create packages for it. Why would I try Debian? I use Gentoo because it has up-to-date packages and feature-customizability. I don't like using shoddy backports and questionable third party repositories, thankyouverymuch. > I dislike GRP too. I feel that it takes (development) resources from us that > could be invested in more innovative projects. I feel that GRP is an effort > to reach more users instead of focussing on what Gentoo really was about > several months back. That's a damaging state of mind. Wanting to adhere to one's original goals is great, but it's resulted in the stagnation of every open-source project which has done so rigidly. Brad -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list