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On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 15:34 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: |
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> > What happened to working together? Should we work together instead of |
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> > competing against each other? |
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> Sometimes you want to achieve the same goal by totally different means. |
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> Sometimes there are good reasons for a complete new start. It does not |
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> even mean you don't communicate anymore. Brian Harring, although working |
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> on pkgcore which basically competes portage, communicates a lot with the |
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> portage team and vice versa, in a very productive manner. Nevertheless, |
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> you won't find anybody on the portage or pkgcore team saying that it |
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> would have been better to incorporate the ideas of pkgcore into portage. |
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Right. |
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> Sometimes it's simply better to start all over again. |
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I completely agree here. I do want to note, though, that Brian is |
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working on pkgcore outside of Gentoo, much like how Paludis is being |
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done. Now, at some point in the future, we might all decide that |
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pkgcore (or paludis, or something else, entirely) would be a better |
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official package manager than portage. So we switch. I think this |
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model for "competing projects" works out quite well. At the same time, |
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I dislike us having so much "competition" internally, as I think it |
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helps to foster some of the conflict and ill will that many of us have |
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towards each other. |
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