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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:45:27 +0100 |
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> Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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>> It's a simple workaround for the lack of proper ebuild namespacing on |
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>> the basis of slots. |
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>> So, till we have that, this works pretty well. :) |
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> Until you have that, or something else designed to do what you want, |
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> don't come up with some disgusting hack. |
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So the PMS process should be a bottleneck to getting software out to |
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users? I think that's counter-productive. |
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Our goal here is not to facilitate package manager development but to |
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package and distribute software to users. |
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On the other hand, you seem to be uniquely inclined to give a priority |
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to this, and hence I implore you to continue your investigations into |
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adding this feature to PMS and portage. :) |
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Cheers, |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |