From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17712 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2004 23:05:36 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 10 Aug 2004 23:05:36 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BufgW-0000h2-8b for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:05:36 +0000 Received: (qmail 21161 invoked by uid 89); 10 Aug 2004 23:05:35 +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 22642 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2004 23:05:35 +0000 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:07:49 +0000 From: Kurt Lieber To: Chris Bainbridge Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040810230749.GP29077@mail.lieber.org> References: <20040808185144.GB29077@mail.lieber.org> <200408101333.31687.pauldv@gentoo.org> <200408101433.51555.absinthe@gentoo.org> <200408102119.26115.chrb@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+8GP5RjC/E7LQ/F" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408102119.26115.chrb@gentoo.org> X-GPG-Key: http://www.lieber.org/kurtl.pub.gpg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again) X-Archives-Salt: f6c1c261-8cc5-4ad5-97d2-4ad4dff9c9d1 X-Archives-Hash: f32b7757d3d0054594c4f193534b6534 --k+8GP5RjC/E7LQ/F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:19:25PM +0100 or thereabouts, Chris Bainbridge w= rote: > So heres the cheeky proposal... make a "redhat" release. Follow redhats= =20 > release cycle, and match their versions. Use their backported fixes.=20 > Commercial software will work. Bugs will be fixed. This is the power of o= pen=20 > source. You're making a HUGE assumption that red hat compiles from the same sources we compile from. That's simply not the case. Kernels, glibc, gcc, etc. almost always have a number of patches that they add. You cannot make the blanket statement that commercial software will work. More importantly, you can't make the assumption that commercial software *companies* will support their products on Gentoo, even if we're using the same version numbers of key packages. --kurt --k+8GP5RjC/E7LQ/F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBGVVFJPpRNiftIEYRAlrRAKCbvKMByVShikkX3y2HchXf3/a51QCdGBjU lwVDzPHdm0lqFDFA5V6OZ4Y= =Lm+x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+8GP5RjC/E7LQ/F--