Re: It's not Rust, it's FreeBSD (and LLVM)

Am 2024-09-10 10:05, schrieb Poul-Henning Kamp:
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> Alexander Leidinger writes:
> 
>> It was a serious question. As you say "no", I fail to understand what 
>> you
>> propose. Please explain it in more detail, our cognitive picture of 
>> what is
>> meant by your proposal does not seem to match. Or my picture of a 
>> Linux
>> distro is not similar to what your picture of a Linux distro looks 
>> like.
> 
> Linux is only a kernel, and that finnish dude does not care a hoot
> what executable PID=1 might or might not be or do.

And a Linux _distro_ is a kernel /and/ a filesystem full of programs, 
scripts and other files, which cosplays as a complete, high quality 
(depending on who you ask) and usable, UNIX system[1], on which you can 
run the programs you want/need/care for.

I might add, that a linux distro is also a set of packages which form 
the above. And by telling FreeBSD is ports you gave me the impression, 
that you want to say that we should move away from src is base and to 
move to "a set of packages handled by the ports collection". I also 
understand it to blur the lines between pkgbase and packages from ports 
and make it possible to install parts of the basesystem from ports... 
which to me looks like what I just described in this paragraph as a 
linux distro.

> FreeBSD is a kernel /and/ a filesystem full of programs, scripts
> and other files, which cosplays as a complete, high quality and
> usable, UNIX system[1], on which you can run the programs you
> want/need/care for.
> 
> Poul-Henning
> 
> [1] Because somebody somewhere still defends the trademark.

Bye,
Alexander.

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