Re: A GNU Distribution

[Brandon Invergo]

Daniel Robbins is the original project founder of Gentoo (and, later,
Funtoo) and the author of its Portage (BSD Ports-like) package
management system.

In regards to that, though, GNU already has GSRC, which is based on GAR
(another Ports-like system) and puts to use other GNU software such as
Make, wget and Bazaar. That, coupled with Stow and a Bash script binding
all that functionality together (or a basic GTK interface to do it),
means that GNU already effectively has a system like Portage without
having to write anything more than maybe a bit of glue code or a GUI.

-brandon

On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 20:07 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> If I understood correctly, Daniel Robbins is currently writing a new 
>     version of portage. My feeling is that we need experienced hackers on 
>     this project. And another way to launch such a project could be to use 
>     an existing distro. Nobody asked for that, but my dream is to initiate a 
>     dialogue between Daniel and RMS
> 
> I don't recognize the name, but I could talk with him if that is
> useful.  First, however, I need to know what the starting situation
> is.  What is his attitude towards GNU and towards the free software
> movement?
> 
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