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On 03/17/04 Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> This said, how much effort are we ready to put into satisfying what |
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> will probably be a very very small number of users. I have the feeling |
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> that almost all non-linux uses are purely academic (proving it can be |
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> done). There is very little demand or use for gentoo outside the Linux |
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> world(maybe except for macosx and that's just one more keyword), and |
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> no proper solution has been proposed. So my conclusion on this is that |
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> for the time being, we should stay with the current keywording system |
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> and maybe add two or three more. |
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Independent on how we implement it, this is a long term issue and won't |
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affect normal development for a while (unless we want to use it in |
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parallel with the current KEYWORDS system). First it has to be |
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implemented, then it has to be tested, then propagated and only then |
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it's possible to start using it. And I'd say the propagation phase alone |
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should be 2 or 3 months. And do you really know how the world looks in 6 |
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months or a year? Also it's not only about using Gentoo outside of Linux |
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but also portage as a secondary package manager on other operating |
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systems. Who knows, maybe in 2 or 3 years portage is the dominant |
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package management software. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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