Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tom

[Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org>]

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.

What would you do without SSH?  There isn't a working GPL version.
Likewise, the only GPL'd MTA is exim.  I happen to love it, but most
people usually look at Postfix or qmail as alternatives to sendmail.

All I'm saying is don't limit yourself by sharing RMS's jingoistic
tunnel-vision.

The true strength of Gentoo is that it's best-of-breed and not limit of
scope.

        --Jerry

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