From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2003-10-23T07:18:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-oriented Linux distro?

Michael Garriss wrote:
> I also have some experience with cross compiling toolchains (don't try
> this home kids).

Ugh, tell me about it.  What's worse is when you have to pass a CFLAGS 
setting every time you build something.  Most configure scripts don't know 
how to deal with a situation like this at all.

Anyhow, I have experience building a linux distro from scratch.  Granted, 
it's running on an embedded processor out of 16 megs of flash, but I may 
have useful skills to contribute here for desktop builds too, and I'd like 
to do so.

Is the goal to make the distro gentoo-like?  I have it at home and it is a 
pretty slick system.  I understand its portage package management system 
uses Python underneath.  I like portage, but if I were to write a package 
management system myself I'd change a lot of details.  It seems like 
portage is probably written so that it's tied to the commandline.  A more 
sensible way of doing things to me would be to have easily exchanged UIs 
for package management, text as a basic default, but GTK, QT, etc. as first 
class citizens.

Ben