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From: Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating repoman
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 22:33:52
Message-Id: 87fsnqwybd.fsf@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating repoman by Matt Turner
1 On Wed, Mar 9, 2022, at 15:47 CST, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
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3 > [...]
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5 > I wouldn't block anyone from doing this, but it's not something I'm
6 > personally interested in pursuing. I see very little value here.
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8 I did not intend to imply that you should do anything.
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10 I just want to point out that we had been educating developers for using
11 "repoman" to commit for a long time and looking at the "git log" history
12 shows that repoman is still used by a sizable number of developers
13 (around 50%-ish).
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15 So, it would be very nice to have a somewhat official "blessed"
16 alternative in place.
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19 For example, dev-util/pkgdev was suggested as an alternative, but I
20 cannot assess whether this is indeed a viable alternative.
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23 Best,
24 Matthias

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating repoman Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>