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On Friday 30 March 2007, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 20:42 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: |
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> > i don't think that personal issues should be taken into account when it |
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> > comes to choosing a new official package manager for gentoo. |
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> It's relevant in that people have to work with the developers of the |
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> package manager. Unlike most other things in the portage tree, the |
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> package manager ties very closely to the very definition of the |
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> distribution itself. Hence, if people are unable to get along, then by |
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> adopting a package manager like that, you inherently adopt the |
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> developers of that package manager and all the personnel issues that |
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> accompany it. |
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> Ideally, however, I agree with you that it should be based on technical |
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> merits. The reality is that there are people involved. And people |
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> always complicate things. |
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thanks seemant, preciously how i'd have put it if i could :) |
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-mike |
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