On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:24:01PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:46:23PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > don't handle deps at all) > > >... > > > So, what do you think? Could this work? > > > > Yes, this could work. > > That's what Gentoo is good at. > > [ snip ] > > > Your priority are your users, and if Debian has decided to focus only on > > some key architectures it would be the best for them to help them > > switching to Gentoo instead of hacking Debian to become some cheap > > Gentoo clone for most architectures. > > I don't view this as being a cheap Gentoo clone. In fact, I view > srcinst as being the Gentoo idea, done right. Gentoo has a lot of > problems, especially relating to difficult upgrades. Because of our > superior packaging system, we are in a great position to hit the ground > running and, with a little help from something like srcinst, come up > with something that works -- and works better than Gentoo -- in a short > amount of time. > > > If the Debian developers intereested in the ports Debian intends to drop > > would switch to Gentoo for helping Gentoo to support all of their > > architectures and for providing easy Debian -> Gentoo transition paths > > this would serve your users better. > > Yes, but I hope that this proposal, or other suggestions, can help us > avoid dropping ports. This specific proposal, for instance, is meant to > provide us with a way forward that addresses the main concerns while > still producing a quality, usable result for our users.
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