From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB41138A1A for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 763A2E0883; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F22D2E0882 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:33:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.31.246] (unknown [100.42.98.7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8E840340682; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:33:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <54B6EEB7.6010107@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:33:27 -0800 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?QW1hZGV1c3ogxbtvxYJub3dza2k=?= CC: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Some focus for Gentoo References: <20150114034323.GA22358@comet.hsd1.mn.comcast.net> <54B6E025.2070206@gentoo.org> <87h9vtdohf.fsf@freja.aidecoe.name> In-Reply-To: <87h9vtdohf.fsf@freja.aidecoe.name> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 504d8348-27d5-4f56-90ba-d576a0772328 X-Archives-Hash: 51239615f8ce1514f6575a4fa40ac85a On 01/14/2015 01:46 PM, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: > Zac Medico writes: > >> On 01/13/2015 07:43 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> Wanted to share my thoughts on where I think Gentoo should go, in terms >>> of direction. Would love to hear your thoughts. >>> >>> http://dberkholz.com/2015/01/13/gentoo-needs-focus-to-stay-relevant/ >>> >> >> I think that improved binary package support will allow Gentoo to >> compete with binary distros, making Gentoo applicable to a much wider >> audience. > > As far as I understand we should focus on something that other distros > fail at. (I'm not saying we should ignore binary package support, but > definitely it's place is not in top-3.) Well, maybe you could say that other distros fail at providing an extremely flexible build-system to feed their binary package repositories? If you look at it this way, Gentoo's missing piece is the binary package repository support. Thanks, Zac