<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Benny Pedersen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:me@...">me@...</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Den 2012-03-23 00:33, Harry Holt skrev:<br>
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The only thing I use outside of Portage is Tomcat.  Because Im a<div class="im"><br>
webapp developer and the Portage package is a big, steaming PITA.<br>
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suggestions go into bugs.g.o<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Been there, done that.  Nothing changes, or is really even properly acknowledged.  For example bug 282071 (<a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282071">https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282071</a>) was closed as a duplicate, even though it&#39;s about ROOT and manager, not about &quot;Examples&quot;.  The so-called duplicate 283273 (<a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283273">https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283273</a>) is nearly 3 years old with no resolution, or even work-around.  <br>
<br>Not even the nearly-as-old bugs submitted to at least document the brokenness are resolved (<a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277688">https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277688</a>).  <br><br>The thing simply has tons of issues that require major pain to work around:<br>
<br><a href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713224-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html">http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713224-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html</a><br><br><a href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-874051-highlight-tomcat.html">http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-874051-highlight-tomcat.html</a><br>
<br><a href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-886428-highlight-tomcat.html">http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-886428-highlight-tomcat.html</a><br><br><br>I doubt there are many people that use it, since it&#39;s so much easier just to download the package from Apache.org and drop it in /opt, and it just works. <br>
<br>I get that there are issues with the Tomcat up-stream, but it doesn&#39;t change the fact that it takes hours to get it working, and updates often break the work done to get things properly in place.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Sorry about the top-post.  Gmail on Android.<br>
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stop using it so, it works for your ebuilds, why not here ?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Because the benefits outweigh any issues - unlike the Portage Tomcat package, which is pretty much unusable.<br><br>Thx... HH<br><br>