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Hola, |
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I've been inspired by the local/global USE flag threads recently |
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posted by Doug (Cardoe), and it got me to thinking... I've recently |
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joined the pkgcore development effort, and was asked by Brian |
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(ferringb) what I'd like to hack on/what my niggles with portage are. |
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My personal one is why updates/ and binpkg mangling takes so long in |
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portage-$current. But I'd like to know, what are everyone elses? |
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I know that this topic have been rehashed since the dawn of |
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time^Wgentoo-dev, but these things get lost, opinions change... and |
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since last year, new and viable alternate package managers have |
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cropped up. So, basically I'd like to ask all on this list: - what |
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package manager features would make *your* life easier? |
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Personally, I'd like to see the following groups of changes happen one |
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way or another: |
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* Improve QA with/by: |
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- Detecting conflicting USE flags; |
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- Limiting the amount of times we need to call "die" in ebuilds. |
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Yes, that's a small list... which is why I'm sending this mail to |
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solicit even more ideas. :) |
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Comments, flames ("read the archives", "go jump in a pond", etc) and |
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whatever else is coming my way - hit it me with it! ;P |
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Best, |
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Elfyn |
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Elfyn McBratney, |
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Freenode and Gentoo Developer, |
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Nutty between the hours of 3AM and 14AM... |
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