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 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IHmsE-0008Cb-Fy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:38:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l75KcgGd024383; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:38:42 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l75KcfEf024378 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:38:41 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d32so2486402pye for ; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.133.8 with SMTP id k8mr7725486qbn.1186346320350; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.156.14 with HTTP; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:38:40 -0700 From: "Alec Warner" Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com To: "Steve Long" Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Gentoo <--> Sabayon Relation Cc: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46B15C0F.3020809@necoro.eu> X-Google-Sender-Auth: b2c8c2d505c85389 X-Archives-Salt: 7cd725a5-c4ff-4a7c-acad-1484400fe832 X-Archives-Hash: 0a335abdf97ddca9ea7818a1615321bb On 8/4/07, Steve Long wrote: > Alec Warner wrote: > > > So to sum up, we don't support it because it has really bad make.conf > > settings (CFLAGS/LDFLAGS). It would be like saying 'we support you > > using -ffast-math'. Which is false, we will tell you to rebuild your > > system without -ffast-math. If you come to me with a sabayon problem, > > I'll tell you to rebuild your system with sane build flags unless you > > have good evidence that those flags are not the problem. Most Sabayon > > users are not prepared to do that. > > > > I don't understand why he didn't just do a binary distro; that's what gentoo > is setup to make (as a meta-distro.) The only reason I can think of is lack > of resources, and that's one of the reasons I think of it as leeching, > since gentoo infra is used to supply portage and distfiles. The other thing > is, there probably wasn't such good support for overlays when he started > (I'm guessing.) Nowadays, there are loads of em, and many herds have their > own overlays. I would say because our binary repository format currently isn't exactly...what I'd call good. The code has improved a lot and I recall solar working on new stuff for distribution, I am unsure if it has reached stable. -- gentoo-project@gentoo.org mailing list