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> What on earth is going to be a "major visible improvement" to a command |
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> line based package manager that any average Gentoo user is going to |
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> realise? The average user probably only uses a few commands: emerge |
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> -u/p/a/v/--sync/package/world/system and then use |
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> package.keywords/mask/unmask so there are really no fundamental |
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> differences that the average user will notice |
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How about the speed of search's? the speed of resolving dependancy's? how |
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about the speed that it takes to calculate a dependancy listing after you've |
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already done it once? portage is SLOW. how about getting it to the point |
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where it could be made to incorporate a graphical frontend if wanted. how |
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about providing me a list of packages that are masked instead of making me |
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read and unmask them one at a time. |