Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

To: Andrew Lau <netsnipe@debianplanet.org>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:51:30 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 20021120145130.GD12510@christoph>
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:50:32PM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote:
> 	The question I want to pose today is "Are we losing users to
> Gentoo?" I hate to sound like a marketing departmen drone, but I'm

I'd like to point out that our build tools now are about to the point where
users could achieve roughly the same power on Debian as they do with gentoo
by building their own .debs from source.  There are probably even benefits
here.  Perhaps we just need to publicize this more.

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