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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: [Wed May 17 2006, 04:57:59PM CDT] |
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> Hear, hear. It should be clear to everybody by now that the thread in |
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> question is not going to lead to a solution. |
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Actually, I tend to disagree with that sentiment. Sure, it's quite a |
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long thread, but it's also covered a great deal: (a) what are the |
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advantages and disadvantages of such a profile, (b) what such a profile |
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would look like, (c) should an alternative package manager influence the |
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tree before it becomes stable, (d) would bug reports for such an |
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unstable package manager be unduly burdensome, (e) what are the |
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invariants for an alternative package manager, (f) what would be |
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required for an alternative package manager to become a replacement |
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package manager, (g) is it reasonable to have an alternative, |
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potentially replacement, package manager that is not Gentoo-owned, and |
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I'm sure there are others. More importantly, there seem to have been |
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reasonable answers to many of those questions. Also, it seems to me |
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that this thread was moving towards a consensus that most people would |
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like to see paludis mature a bit more before a profile is added, but |
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that if there were clear evidence that paludis wasn't doing any of those |
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things described on the paludis website then many people would, indeed, |
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support a paludis profile in the future. (As an aside, I don't happen |
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to agree with that presumed consensus, as I always thought that keeping |
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the *BSD stuff in an overlay made the barrier to entry too high, and I'd |
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hate to see that mistake repeated.) |
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In any event, there's a common knee-jerk reaction that any lengthy |
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thread is, by definition, a "flamewar". Despite the occasionally heated |
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rhetoric, I've seen a lot of valuable content in that thread, and that |
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sort of discussion is certainly not something that I would want to |
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discourage! |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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