Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage QOS

[Brian Dolbec]

On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 17:52 -0800, Patrick McLean wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:19:03 +0100
> Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:31:21 +0800
> > Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > > On 01/10/2014 08:16 AM, heroxbd@g.o wrote:
> > > Last I checked paludis wasn't faster - on average portage was a few
> > > percents faster.
> >
>
> > > For python things you really want  python or C instead of C++...
> >
> > Why is this a Python thing? What's the reason to exclude a language?
> >
> > > So, what you wanted to ask was:
> > > "Which parts of pkgcore can be migrated into portage?"
> >
> > Or rather: "What does it take to migrate parts of pkgcore into
> > portage?"
>
> Why not just switch to using pkgcore as the default package manager.
> radhermit has been doing a lot of work lately getting EAPI 5 support
> added, and generally fixing bugs etc.
>
> Since we no longer have anyone intimately familiar with the
> portage code, we should just switch to a more modern and readable
> system. Rather than having random people trying to learn the convoluted
> portage code, let's concentrate on getting pkgcore to a point where
> we can replace portage with it.
>

Patrick  If you wish to be a part of getting pkgcore's eapi 5 fully
working your welcome to start helping out.  I can set you up with access
in the main google code repo.  Radhermit has been working mostly out of
his github account, updating the main repo.

I would very much love to get pkgcore fully functional in eapi 5.

It's speed runs circles around portage and paludis.

I have not been able to help radhermit out as yet, I have been trying to
get some other project cleaned up before delving deeper into pkgcore
code.  I have just recently taken over lead of portage (an interim
position) due to Zac stepping down and away.  So I have that added to my
todo list at the moment too. 

-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>