From: drobbins@gentoo.org
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tom
Date: Thu Jan 25 11:52:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010125115133.C12435@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101251234290.14221-100000@eris.io.com>; from egabriel@io.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:37:07PM -0600
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:37:07PM -0600, Gabriel wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jerry A! wrote:
> > Actually, base system isn't only FSF. The default tarball used
> > BerkeleyDB, OpenSSH, Perl (which while is GPL'd, isn't owned by the
> > FSF), etc...
>
> I meant "the mythical not yet provided base system", which I suppose would
> make it not Gentoo. I have a dream of bootstrapping to a minimal system, and
> having an ebuild for every package at ftp.gnu.org. I wonder what RMS would
> do once he actually had what he asked for.
Well, not all GNU software is at ftp.gnu.org. Berkeley DB is developed at
Sleepycat Software, and glibc depends on it. Many "official" GNU programs
depend on "unofficial" GNU programs to either build or run.
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-25 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20010124234502.4D5CF51353@cvs.gentoo.org>
2001-01-24 18:29 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Tom Bryce Porter
2001-01-24 18:53 ` Thomas Flavel
2001-01-25 4:47 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-25 5:54 ` Thomas Flavel
2001-01-25 6:05 ` Gabriel
2001-01-25 6:49 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-25 9:53 ` drobbins
2001-01-25 10:48 ` [gentoo-dev] Hurd Gabriel
2001-01-25 10:56 ` drobbins
2001-01-25 11:01 ` Gabriel
2001-01-25 11:13 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Tom Jerry A!
2001-01-25 11:37 ` Gabriel
2001-01-25 11:46 ` Jerry A!
2001-01-25 11:52 ` drobbins [this message]
2001-01-25 6:31 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-25 9:11 ` Thomas Flavel
2001-01-25 9:01 ` Bill Anderson
2001-01-25 9:08 ` Bill Anderson
2001-01-25 9:29 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-25 9:30 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-25 10:24 fruhstuck
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