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From: Jason Mobarak <jmob@×××.edu>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Webbased Portage - WebPortage-0.1 alpha1
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:52:12
Message-Id: 20031127184800.GA741@unm.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Webbased Portage - WebPortage-0.1 alpha1 by "Philippe Lafoucrière"
1 Hi --
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3 On 18:52 Thu 27 Nov , Philippe Lafoucri?re wrote:
4 > >
5 > > It's hard to build an alternative UI if design is like this - the result
6 > > is always that developers of alternative frontends simply reinvent the
7 > > wheel for their frontend: Instead of using predefined routines for basic
8 > > tasks they have to completely reimplement emerge for the application
9 > > they are building. This is a problem.
10 >
11 >
12 > I totally agree with you. Developing an UI for portage is really painfull :(
13 >
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15 Yes, "portage-ng" will fix these problems, not to say portage-ng is going to be
16 a panacea but Daniel Robbins has many ideas to increase the modularity and
17 extensibility of portage. I also have many ideas regarding this, and hopefully
18 they will be considered in future version of portage. :)
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21 -- Jason
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