Jon Portnoy wrote: [Mon May 22 2006, 09:38:23AM CDT] > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:21:34AM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote: > > Please don't change your wording on that. The feel really strongly > > about the primary pkg manager of Gentoo needing remain under the full > > control of Gentoo Linux. > > > > Agreed, I'm of the opinion it would be inappropriate to let an outside > entity steer our primary package manager.
I'm not sure I understand why. After all, mandriva, suse, ubuntu, and many others have survived quite well. More to the point, though, it's not clear to me what awful things happen if Gentoo does not own the package manager code, as long as that code is under a reasonable license. Suppose that such a package manager did became a Gentoo default, and at some point the program diverged from what Gentoo really wanted; wouldn't Gentoo then just fork the package manager? Am I missing something obvious? -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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