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On 03/22/2018 04:17 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote:
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> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:03:46 +0100 |
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> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> After 2+ years of repeating disagreements with Portage maintainer(s) |
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>> I have finally decided to fork Portage. My little fork uses technical |
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>> name of 'portage[mgorny]' [1] (to distinguish it from mainline Portage), |
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>> and aims to focus on cleaning up code and adding useful features with |
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>> less concern for infinite bug-by-bug compatibility. |
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> I hope you will continue with our efforts to drive regular Portage |
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> forwards too. It's been a long road but also very productive. |
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> I notice that your fork cannot be installed at the same time as regular |
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> Portage. I think this will really hinder any interest in it. As |
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> Gentoo developers, we obviously have to make sure things work with the |
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> official package manager and that goes for you too. Would it be |
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> possible for them to coexist? I'm not saying I'll try it though, just |
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> making a suggestion. :) |
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Seems to also be blocked by other management tools such as perl-cleaner
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and haskell-updater. I'd love to take it for a spin if you have any
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suggestions on how to navigate the blocks.
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https://paste.pound-python.org/show/VxWWAGW9PpPCS3L4Q6Z3/
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Herb Miller Jr. |
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