Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

[Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@paradise.net.nz>]

On Saturday 31 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:13:18 +0100
>
> Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:50:59 +0100
> >
> > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> wrote:
> > > A few years ago Gentoo had some serious advantages over the
> > > competition. These days, Gentoo is at serious risk of being Red
> > > Queened by Ubuntu and Fedora. Providing the same thing that was
> > > provided two years ago isn't enough. If Portage can't deliver
> > > functionality that makes Gentoo competitive with where Ubuntu will
> > > be a year from now, Portage has to be replaced.
> >
> > You seem to be under the misapprehension that Portage == Gentoo.
>
> No no, I'm saying that at present Portage is one of Gentoo's most
> severe limiting factors.

In which case your Paludis fork of Gentoo will take off like a scalded cat, 
and the world will come racing to your door begging for your Mk II version of 
Gentoo. Go for it, the GPL ensures that you have nothing to lose. Others have 
done it with varying degrees of success. Kororaa and Sabayon come to mind 
immediatly, and I seem to remember a very early fork which foundered pretty 
quickly.

I have been using Gentoo for many years, since the 1.2 release anyway. 
For me, what separates Gentoo from the others is - in order:
1) The ease of updating the file-set and installing new packages. Say what you 
like against it, Portage does what it was designed to do for the user very 
effectively. ok the tree breaks occasionally, but to err is human, and I have 
no difficulty accepting that fact;
2) The superb quality of the documentation. By and large, it's well written 
and actually understandable, and that's a rarity in this field of endeavour;
3) The IRC channels and the support fora are second to none for getting a 
quick answer to the current question.

Without doubt, while Portage may not equate to Gentoo, it is the single 
feature which has branded Gentoo as being what it is.

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