Talk:Gentoo/FreeBSD

message: "The original, long term goal is to be able to choose any combination of software between the GNU/Linux and BSD versions, but that it is no more a priority as it is unfeasibly difficult at this point in time."
What does that mean? Should it actually be, "The original, long term goal was to be able to choose any combination of software between the GNU/Linux and BSD versions, but that it is no longer a priority, as it is not feasible at this point in time."? --Charles Gaudette 04:11, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes I'd say your interpretation is correct. Flameeyes 09:52, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Done. --Charles Gaudette 22:07, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help rewrite this 

message: it was actually the other way round, gentoo took it's portage system from freebsd after one of the lead developers used freebsd for a few months. - withnail420
:portage and FreeBSD ports are different things.  It is true that portage is partly inspired by ports, but it is also true that Gentoo/FreeBSD truly uses the python-backed portage instead of the conventional ports makefiles. --Karnesky 05:13, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone needs to learn the history of Portage. Portage is supposed to be a modernised python rewrite of the freeBSD ports system for GNU/Linux; made to be, among other things, easier to maintain than makefiles. The Article currently says Gentoo/FreeBSD is to "bring Gentoo Linux design principles such as Portage ... to the FreeBSD operating system." This makes no sense. The 'principles' of portage are the same as FreeBSD ports as Portage is designed to immitate ports in a more user friendly way and under the GNU GPL; principals haven't changed--KX36 21:36, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, but who's that someone who "needs to learn the history of portage?"  I did say that portage was inspired by ports.  Portage does have a different design than ports, but I agree that the sentence can be made clearer.  I changed it. --Karnesky 21:48, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

text: By all means your change was senseless. It's not bringing "Gentoo", as that's a penguin; what Gentoo/FreeBSD does is to port the infrastructure used by Gentoo Linux under FreeBSD operating system. That portage was derived itself by the principles of ports, is irrelevant. Flameeyes 13:18, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed referance to portage being brought to freebsd from gentoo 

message: This was tagged for some reason, though I haven't found any discussion of it on the talk page. Can the author who added this tag please clarify on how the article fails to meet notability guideline? It could use more references, but is otherwise just as significant as any other Linux / BSD project article. 68.209.235.149 16:13, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: I propose that Gentoo/FreeBSD be merged into Gentoo/Alt. There is not really that much text in this article, so it would be quite easy to put into the section Gentoo/Alt#Gentoo.2FFreeBSD. Also, I'm not really sure that Gentoo/FreeBSD is notable enough for its own article, especially seeing as we already have an article on Gentoo/Alt. Orthogonal1 (talk) 04:14, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: As per WP:Silence and consensus, since nobody has objected to the merge, I'm going to proceed with it. If you object to this, remember that consensus can change, and start a proposal for the pages to be split again. Orthogonal1 (talk) 07:14, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merger