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On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 14:33 +0100, Auke Booij wrote: |
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> Alright, so I experimented a bit with G-CPAN and read some of its |
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> code, and it kind of works as I expected. I also spoke with some |
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> paludis devs (including the chief), and they told me that basically a |
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> lot of CRAN packages are illegal in some of way. |
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With Ruby's gems we are seeing similar problems, to the point that we no |
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longer use the rubygem package manager application but instead wrote our |
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own eclasses to deal with the gems directly. This means more work for |
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the ruby herd, but it does enable us to properly express dependencies |
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and do things like patching and running tests. There is a balance here |
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between extra work and proper quality that depends on the quality of the |
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underlying repository. |
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Kind regards, |
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Hans |
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