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On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Do you acknowledge that Portage is a severe limiting factor when it |
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> comes to improving the Gentoo user experience as a whole? |
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what a lame question ... rather than waste time on this, why dont we get to |
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some relevant issues ... |
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to start with, Paludis will never be an official package manager for Gentoo so |
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long as you are heavily involved. now that we've put a bolt right between |
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the eyes of that pink elephant, how about we address some other things as |
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well ... |
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since you're obviously going to complain about Gentoo's official package |
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manager so long as $pkgmgr != paludis without any intentions of helping |
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address limitations you raise (nor am i expecting you to), why dont you do us |
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all a favor and clamp it. constantly pointing out that $pkgmgr sucks and |
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$pkgmgr does not support xxx and $pkgmgr has this limitation or that stupid |
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design decision and that paludis is the be all end all solution to our |
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problems does not accomplish anything ... it merely serves to piss us all off |
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a good topic for the next council meeting i think would be to start up a spec |
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of requirements that a package manager must satisfy before it'd be an |
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official package manager for Gentoo ... off the top of my head: |
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- the main developers need to be Gentoo developers |
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- source code hosted on Gentoo infrastructure |
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- compatible "emerge" and "ebuild" binaries |
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-mike |
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