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From: James Northrup <glamdring-inc@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo?
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:41:20 -0700
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On Jun 6, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Aron Griffis wrote:

> This is kinda bloggish, because it's basically a transcription of an
> IRC monologue.  My apologies if it's hard to follow...  Nonetheless,
> I'm interested in how other developers feel on the topics I bring up
> below.


overlay capabilities are understated.

The use of USE flags might someday emerge overlays which open up the  
gateway to ricer heaven for one group while an entirely seperate  
group does in fact bolt down RHEL analogs in function and process.

Does the growth of metadata processing overhead exceed moore's law?


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