Re: [gentoo-dev] Integrating Portage with other package managers

[Benda Xu]

Dear Rich,

Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes:

> Everybody I know has these sorts of complaints about language-based
> PMs, whether they prefer Ubuntu, or Debian, or CentOS, or whatever.
> Nobody wants random programs downloading random stuff and dropping
> orphan files all over their filesystem with no way to identify these
> or clean them up.  They're usually written by the same sorts of people
> who tell you to pipe curl into sudo bash...

One observation.  There are a lot of people on this planet who will
format their disk and reinstall their whatever operating systems upon
getting fscked by random programs downloading random stuff and dropping
orphan files all over their filesystem.  So far the volume of this group
of people is growing fast.

That give an illusion of tolerance from the users, enouraging this evil
to go deeper.

Luckily in Gentoo, we are with competent friends who are taking care of
their own systems.

Cheers,
Benda