From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EtWte-0007Ty-4h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:07:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k02L67Gi005973; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:06:07 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k02L3rDk018686 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:03:54 GMT Received: from ip68-102-201-166.ks.ok.cox.net ([68.102.201.166] helo=[10.3.1.219]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EtWqP-0004NK-Es for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:03:53 +0000 Message-ID: <43B99539.70409@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:03:53 -0600 From: Lance Albertson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January References: <200601011053.k01ArjOh019213@robin.gentoo.org> <43B96D6D.8080107@gentoo.org> <1136226795.8779.10.camel@localhost> <43B975FD.1000401@gentoo.org> <1136228634.23404.125.camel@localhost> <20060102194954.GB7125@gentoo.org> <1136232723.23404.154.camel@localhost> <20060102204604.GC7125@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20060102204604.GC7125@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5B16EE85A3656D321122F765" X-Archives-Salt: e35336f1-b8ae-4276-9c5d-ee04e752f796 X-Archives-Hash: 763e56a540f894ba9a86132dff1b1e32 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig5B16EE85A3656D321122F765 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Grobian wrote: > On 02-01-2006 21:12:03 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: >>We already have a mission statement - to produce the best software >>distribution, ever ;-) >>Wether it should be Linux only, GNU-based or a metadistribution is a >>rather touchy subject, so please try to keep the discussion >>civilized ... > > > Lance mentioned something about what he sees is a niche where Gentoo > does quite well. "Produce the best software distribution, ever" sounds > a bit vague to me. That's why I agree with Lance for now. Maybe after > a little research, trial and error period it turns out to be better to > keep the target vague. Yeah, if we're content to being a hobbyist distro, then that mission statement will work. But, the technology behind Gentoo has far broader benefits for various things. Especially with the recent work of the alt related subprojects, embedded, etc ... its changing. Like for me, I would love to use the portage technology to build packages for solaris machines I maintain at work. We have a build system currently, but its nothing like portage. Gentoo is more than just Linux now and we should have goals that fit that. When I say "we have a niche we're perfect at", I'm mainly referring to the source-based nature of our OS. There isn't another distro out there that does it as well as us and we should improve on that fact. Let the other distros get better at being binary-based. Anyways, thats my thoughts. -- Lance Albertson Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net --------------enig5B16EE85A3656D321122F765 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDuZU6QW+hXSf0t0IRAsV3AKDlGvx05JWfyhOn3yNmroScboZlVQCgllp2 jSxp3x7BzQJWGUD3ykmzXy4= =EEf5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5B16EE85A3656D321122F765-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list