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On Friday 30 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Instead, you have to worry about Gentoo infra people pulling commit |
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> access under the guise of 'security measures' and refusing devrel |
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> requests to restore it. |
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agreed, that was complete bs ... it has since been rectified |
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> But you're not addressing the issue. If the Council requests a new |
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> feature in Portage, will it happen? |
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if the Council felt the need to force something in, then yes, it would happen |
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> and other package managers, as plenty of people will tell you. |
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i'm perfectly happy keeping the tree open to alternative package managers ... |
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i'm not perfectly happy releasing control of the main package manager, |
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whichever that may be in the future |
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> > > > "emerge" is a brand name for Gentoo and while you can complain |
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> > > > about lack of features all you want, dropping portage and |
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> > > > installing a different package manager with a completely |
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> > > > different interface will surely causes a huge pita for everyone |
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> > > In the same way that "dselect" is a brand name for Debian? |
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> > you're confusing dselect with apt-get which is a well-known name |
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> > aspect of Debian |
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> Not at all. dselect used to be a flagship Debian application in the |
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> same way that Portage is for Gentoo. |
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predates my Linux experience ... i'd note however that apt is fully "in-house" |
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with Debian |
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-mike |
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