Re: Outside of portage (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers)

[Harry Holt]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Benny Pedersen <me@××××.org> wrote:

> Den 2012-03-23 00:33, Harry Holt skrev:
>
>> The only thing I use outside of Portage is Tomcat.  Because Im a
>>
>> webapp developer and the Portage package is a big, steaming PITA.
>>
>
> suggestions go into bugs.g.o
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>
Been there, done that.  Nothing changes, or is really even properly
acknowledged.  For example bug 282071 (
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282071) was closed as a duplicate,
even though it's about ROOT and manager, not about "Examples".  The
so-called duplicate 283273 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283273)
is nearly 3 years old with no resolution, or even work-around.

Not even the nearly-as-old bugs submitted to at least document the
brokenness are resolved (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277688).

The thing simply has tons of issues that require major pain to work around:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713224-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-874051-highlight-tomcat.html

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-886428-highlight-tomcat.html


I doubt there are many people that use it, since it's so much easier just
to download the package from Apache.org and drop it in /opt, and it just
works.

I get that there are issues with the Tomcat up-stream, but it doesn'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.



>
>  Sorry about the top-post.  Gmail on Android.
>>
>
> stop using it so, it works for your ebuilds, why not here ?
>

Because the benefits outweigh any issues - unlike the Portage Tomcat
package, which is pretty much unusable.

Thx... HH