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On Wednesday 17 May 2006 00:22, Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> > Does the Gentoo Project not support the |
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> > entire tree all of a sudden? |
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> There are plenty of ebuilds in the tree marked as unsupported by |
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> gentoo. Probably some profiles too, though I can't name them for |
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> certain off the top of my head. |
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That's not an argument, the share of both unsupported and unmaintaned packages |
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is problematic enough. Unfortunately trying to find a way to change this |
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every time resulted in some devs starting a flame war. |
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> 1) Is bugsy ready for this, with appropriate categories in place? |
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> Paludis-related bugs can be marked as invalid and the user directed to |
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> Paludis' bug tracker on berlios.de. Alternatively, if our friendly |
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> Bugzilla admins want to create categories I won't complain. I don't see |
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> a need for it though. |
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This costs someones time as well. |
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I haven't had a look at Paludis (the name sucks as much as the name eselect |
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had, before it was named eselect, btw.) yet, so I don't have an opinion on |
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it, but if we (or some of us) start supporting arbitrary package managers, |
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where do we end? Doesn't it cost time, that could be spent better!? If we do |
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it, wouldn't it be better to modularize a bit first? E.g. defining interfaces |
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between |
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- tarball management (fetching via users tool of choice be it from the web or |
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according to a file list from a named media (e.g. DVD or a tape), mirror |
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handling etc.) |
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- profile management (keeping the on disk representation apart from the way |
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the dependency resolver gets the information) |
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- package management (dependency resolver, ect.) |
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- package installer (install files or create binary packages, may the target |
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be .tbz2, .deb or .rpm) |
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and implement them as independent tools, so we can easly exchange one for the |
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other, if there is a superior one, instead having to throw everything away?! |
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I don't think it would be beneficial in the long run, if the outcome would be |
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that Gentoo divides into groups using different package managers. |
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Carsten |
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