Lance Albertson wrote: [Fri Jan 06 2006, 09:27:23AM CST]
> As seen from the discussion earlier this week, I don't think Gentoo has
> the proper open-mindness to create a proper enterprise distro. There are
> too many things that would get in the way of Gentoo proper to make it
> work right. I agree with Duncan that the best route is an outside
> project so that they don't have the constraints of Gentoo proper. Trying
> to inflict the ideals of an enterprise distro into Gentoo right now will
> be an uphill battle the whole way. Just look at all the comments made
> from my thread earlier. You cannot make an enterprise distro without
> focus or direction and a leader. You'll be stuck in committee decisions
> all the time.

I understand that you are naturally disheartened that the discussion you
started did not end as you would have liked.  Fair enough, but I think
you should also take another look at that body of responses.  Many were,
indeed, sulky "I don't wanna leader" comments, but there were also a
number of well-written, cogently-argued replies both in favor of and
opposed to what you wrote.  All in all, I would say that the discussion
you started was a net "win" for Gentoo.  (Of course, I also happen to
disagree with your premise, so I'm biased, but I hope that I'm
open-minded enough that I would feel the same if the results had gone
the other way.)  Indeed, I suggest that this reasonably well-behaved
discussion indicates that the Gentoo community is rather open-minded
itself.

Addressing your point about Enterprise Gentoo, I think you're probably
right about it needing focus, direction, and a leader, but that's quite
different from needing Gentoo as a whole to have any of those.  The
Gentoo *BSD work is a good example of how much can be done by a team 

> Not saying its impossible, but it won't be easy.

Absolutely true.  That said, there's relatively little resistance to the
concept of Enterprise Gentoo, as far as I know.  There is substantial
resistance to anything that might add additional work to
already-overwhelmed package maintainers, however, and I believe that
the lack of an acceptable solution there is what stalled things the last
time around.

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