Re: [gentoo-dev] punt PMS (was: Sets in the tree)

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2013-08-15, o godz. 00:19:40
hasufell <hasufell@g.o> napisał(a):

> On 08/14/2013 10:56 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> >
> > If you want PMS to go away, and call portage the one-and-true PM for
> > Gentoo, then it's probably something for the Council to decide.
> >
>
> I think that would make sense. We don't have enough resources for such
> fun and overcoming PMS burdens has been a major concern for everyone who
> is looking to improve basic functionality.

And do we have the resources to fix the tree every time someone decides
on an awesome improvement that obviously can't hurt anything?

> In the end, people rather go
> for eclass solutions or just give up. That has brought us to the current
> discussion, to base.eclass and to the multilib eclasses with a very
> painful way of migration. Mind that I am an author of one of those
> eclasses as well, so I'm not generally objecting. But it's a fact that
> portage multilib was held back basically by useless PMS politics, so
> that we can support alternative PMs like paludis.

If you mean that we should make the multilib-portage mess the official
way for people to obtain 32-bit wine, then deity-of-choice bless PMS!

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Best regards,
Michał Górny