Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:18:21 +0200:
> Grandma wants to click, okay, so she should use graphical applications. > She's not interested what sits behind, she just wants to have a buch of > applications. And she also doesn't wann have anything to do with emerge > and useflags. She just wants to have a choice between a bunch of end-user > applications. That's the job of an Grandma-(sub-)distro. ... And it's not the job of Gentoo, which is targeted at those who enjoy having those extra knobs to twist, to get the package just the way they want. That's it's strength. If you want a distribution that's easy for someone not interested in command line emerge and learning about USE flags, there are other distributions, much stronger in those areas, while in turn being much weaker in the areas Gentoo excels in. Of course, it is also said that Gentoo is a meta-distribution. There are already a number of specially targeted distributions based on Gentoo, in part because Gentoo exposes the knobs to tweak, making it relatively easy to do so, and aim the result at a particular niche. It'd be perfectly acceptable to create another such Gentoo based distribution and hide all those knobs, replacing them with preconfigured choices, but that's not for Gentoo as a meta-distribution to do, but for downstream to do, should they decide to base their distribution on Gentoo. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
