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On 16:03 Tue 16 Oct , Sébastien Fabbro wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 06:57 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> > 1. I'm not sure the idea of integrating, say, R packages, into Portage |
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> > is a good one. Debian has a lot of R packages in their repository, but |
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> > that's mainly because one developer, Dirk Eddelbuettel, took that on as |
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> > a personal mission. For that matter, I don't know that Portage really |
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> > *needs* to have "tight" integration with any other package management |
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> > systems. In other words, does a CPAN Perl package really need to be |
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> > wrapped in an ebuild, or could a Gentoo user just as easily install CPAN |
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> > packages directly? The same goes for Ruby gems -- it's only marginally |
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> > more convenient for a Rubyist to have gems in Portage, and you'll never |
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> > have them *all. If you have the developer resources, sure, why not, but |
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> > aren't there better things the developers could be doing? In any event, |
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> > I use R and its packages heavily and don't see the need to "emerge |
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> > Rcmdr" -- R's native package management system is fine. So is Ruby's |
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> > "rubygems" package management system. |
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> Not saying 100 R packages => 100 ebuilds, but passing proper flags, |
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> building deps and all could be wrapped in a nice gentoo way (btw, is |
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> paludis doing this?). Anyway this was just a project idea in a todo list |
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> and should go to another thread, or the corresponding bug. |
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Paludis does support CRAN, according to its docs. I don't use it so I |
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can't comment on the details. |
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Portage already has g-cpan.pl to automatically integrate Perl; there's |
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projects to do the same thing with the Python Cheese Shop and Ruby gems |
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as well. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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