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That should be "QED" if and only if the naming scheme the car industry has 
chosen is indeed the correct thing to do.

The car analogy isn't so useful becuase it's important that we do what's
right, not that we do what already has a precedent.  Gentoo is Portage.  
Portage needs GNU utilities like a fish needs a bicycle.


Wes


On 25 Sep 2002, Greg Corcoran wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 04:35, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > To take this into the car analogies.
> > 
> > The car called Linux or Gnu linux
> > Engine: made by Linus Torvalds & co. branded linux
> > Gearbox: made by FSF branded glibc
> > and so on with other pieces ...
> 
> Excellent points!
> 
> This means that the Integrators (the Gentoo developers) are really
> building the OS from parts from different suppliers.
> 
> These parts are put together as defined by the "system" profile. This is
> the base OS.
> 
> QED the proper name is:
> 
> Gentoo(TM) OS
> 
> Greg
> 
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