Re: Rough development plan

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:48:18PM +0200, Brandon Friedman wrote:
> Why not look at Gentoo and their portage system?

Because I don't think Gentoo is at all appropriate for an E-smith type
system.  It's fine for developers who want bleeding edge desktop systems
but doesn't offer any advantages at all to someone wanting a stable,
reliable, easy-to-manage SOHO server.  Gentoo also requires a compiler
to be installed (even if only distcc) and this is a major security hole
on a gateway firewall/router.  And while some things about Portage are
very interesting, its handling post-upgrade reconfiguration is
incredibly crude and it does almost nothing at all to hold package
meta-information (i.e. the ability to preserve configuration *intent*
rather than specifics).

-- 
Bruce

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