Re: [rock-user] Re: Distributions vs kernel development

Dear Gentlemen,

I beg you to stop participating at this penis length contest, I'm fairly
sure it's contrary to the intelligence of both of you. Your "discussion"
(if this peu a peu We-Can-What-You-Can't flamatory can be called
discussion at all) is practically for void because afterwards you end up
going two different ways with the same biased opinion as before. All you
reach is a discredit of yourself.

Because of that I suggest leaving the thing as it is (and your egos)
behind you and instead politely discharge each other with a necessary
grain of respect and going on concentrating on important stuff.

Thank you.


> >  Gentoo is a Meta-Distribution:
> > a distribution that describes itself.  Purely by -definition- you can
> > modify it in any way you want.  There is no limit to how you can modify
> > it, I'm not sure what gives you this idea.
>
> I can modify _any_ source in the way I want. There is nothing META
> needed. And by maintaining my own copy I have a fork. There does not
> seem to be much Meta in Gentoo - I just see a source distribution.

Gentoo isn't a real Meta-Distribution in my sense and that one of those
who are doctrined by the ROCK Linux pinned definition. In fact ROCK
Linux itself is far away from being a Real Meta-Distribution according
to my personal definition and that one of yet again some others
individuals among the ROCK Linux community.

I think it's arguable that Gentoo makes use of that term, but given that
there isn't a public common sense of its definition, only time and
success will tell what will eventually converge to a broad-accepted
definition.

If you, dear Ryan, happen to be nontheless interessed in some
meta-distribution concept far beyond Gentoo, then contact myself
privately and I think we could have some nice chat about.


-- tcr (tcr\@freebits\.de)  ``Ho chresim'eidos uch ho poll'eidos sophos''