On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:30:04 +0200
Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
> > And we'd be starting on the next batch of "oh, we need to wait
> > another year". Had GLEP 55's necessity been accepted a year ago,
> > we'd have a whole bunch of requested features implemented by now.
> > 
> 
> I doubt Portage would have gained new features any faster.

Some useful things that are currently difficult become a lot easier to
implement with GLEP 55. Per-package eclasses, for example, are easy if
you don't have to care about the upgrade path, as is replacing
versionator with a package manager internal. The complexity for both of
those is in the upgrade path, not the implementation.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh