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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:13:27
Message-Id: e9b7c9a0-e73a-06ca-1a16-9e81ef5cc5d7@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead? by Caveman Al Toraboran
1 On 4/22/20 12:07 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
2 >
3 > i was joking. i agree with you + mgorny.
4
5 I got that =)
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7
8 > in fact, i think portage sucks so much it must be
9 > rewritten from scratch, in such a way that it has
10 > least run-time dependencies, so we stop worrying
11 > about upgrading other packages, such as python.
12 >
13
14 sys-apps/pkgcore is a rewrite from scratch, although still in python. It
15 follows the PMS, but is unusable -- as any other rewrite would be --
16 because developers regularly commit things that only work in portage.