On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 12:15:06 -0500 james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: > Being able to use stage-4 or stage-5 (G. forums) installs to rapidly > provision a collection of bare-metal systems [BGO-593218] into a wide > variety of hardened clusters is my passion. Unikernels as stage 4 > packages can then very easily be targeted for very specific needs: VM > or container or bare-metal. Gentoo-proper is has too much political > baggage to encourage folks to innovate, imho. So, I really hope the > gentoo dev community gets behind the Anna Wilcox idea of streamlining > Gentoo into the most fork-able distro on the planet. WE could all be > one happy family and yet be very competitive with our ideas, trials > and published results? Surely a few eggheads (academcis/pedantics) > see the wisdom of competing micro_distros? Not unlike competing > micro_breweries, it make the entire craft much stronger and better > for all. > > > Then there can be peace and harmony as everybody can do exactly as > they please with their little cluster of gentoo and their very own > portage-tree. And then folks running gentoo-proper now can pick and > choose which innovations they want to include in the master tree. > Isn't that pretty much what Google and CoreOS do now, as well as the > gentoo derivative OS? Why not accelerate what has worked, for the > few, to emancipate those of us still chained into user-land servitude.
As an ordinary user, this sounds pretty bad. Forking is great for developers, but bad for users. I don’t *want* 27 different Gentoo-derived fork distributions, each of which is great at one thing. I don’t want to have to reinstall a different OS just because I switch from writing embedded code to running Octave. Honestly, I don’t even want to go out and find other OS’s repos, add them as overlays, and hope the inter-OS dependencies work. As an ordinary user, what I *want*, is to install one OS and not think about it again. Ideally, Gentoo. When I want to do embedded development, I just emerge dev-embedded/thingy. When I want to do some math, I just emerge sci-mathematics/octave. Most things that most people care about in the main tree. Breaking things up into overlays or different OSs or whatever just means adding more hoops that I have to jump through before I can start working on a new topic. -- Christopher Head
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