On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 20:17:40 -0500 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
wrote:
| > The issue is that you need to fix autoconf before you can claim that
| > any non-trivial test case works correctly.
| 
| And how are you going to verify autoconf works perfectly without 
| testing it?

Can't. Dead easy to verify that it will break without testing it,
though. Just look at the source.

| The point I'm making is that the only thing required of *portage*, is 
| the prefix var being used internally, and handed down to the ebuilds.
| 
| Ironing out the ebuild cruft is left to those who want it.  Again, 
| where is the hold up for *portage*?

That's rather short-sighted... Portage is irrelevant without the
ebuilds.

| What's the problem?  Why the 101 holes before they even can attempt 
| it?  If you're after shooting the idea down (as I suspect), state so 
| rather then death by a thousand cuts.  Saves us time, really.
| 
| Hell, haubi's patch already lays the ground work for testing it.  I'm 
| not seeing why you're being negative about people even working on it.

Because a botched solution is worse than no solution at all. You've
seen the mess we end up with when people start working with a
half-arsed initial setup.

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