Re: "Other/Proprietary License with Source"

* Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]> [080905 13:10]:

> Megadistros should die, and to be replaced with minimalist core systems
> (possibly providing a few packages customised for their audiences) and
> a decent system for distribution of third party packages. Maybe then basic
> GPL can work again, when authors are again the primary source of their
> own software, intead of being reduced into unpaid subcontractors for 
> powerful distributors.

I'm using toast (http://www.toastball.net/toast/) to conveniently build
current versions of software packages I care about on top of a linux
distro.  Toast can't handle Ion, because Ion doesn't use
autoconf/automake or similar tool chains (anymore).

Editing system.mk is easy and I've been keeping my systems up on the
latest version of Ion for years.  On the other hand, a standard build
chain would make it even easier for users to follow your vision (by
using tools like toast).  Wouldn't it serve your intents to provide a
method to build Ion without having to manually edit a file (system.mk)?

-- 
Bye, Andreas