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On Mon, 2022-06-13 at 11:30 +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote: |
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> On 13/06/2022 10.29, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 2022-06-13 at 09:44 +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote: |
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> > > Judging from the gentoo-dev@ mailing list discussion [1] about EGO_SUM, |
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> > > where some voices where in agreement that EGO_SUM has its raison d'être, |
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> > > while there where no arguments in favor of eventually removing EGO_SUM, |
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> > > I hereby propose to undeprecate EGO_SUM. |
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> > > 1: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/1a64a8e7694c3ee11cd48a58a95f2faa |
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> > > |
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> > "We've been rehashing the discussion until all opposition got tired |
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> > and stopped replying, then we claim everyone agrees". |
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> I understand this comment so that there was already a discussion about |
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> deprecating and removing EGO_SUM. I usually try to follow what's going |
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> on Gentoo and I remember the discussion about introducing dependency |
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> tarballs. But I apparently have missed the part where EGO_SUM was slated |
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> for removal. And it appears I am not the only one, at least Ionen also |
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> wrote "Missed bits and pieces but was never quite sure why this went |
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> toward full deprecation, just discouraged may have been fair enough, …". |
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> In any case, I am sorry for bringing this discussion up again. But since |
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> I started rehashing this, no arguments why EGO_SUM should be removed |
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> have been provided. And so far, I failed to find the old discussions |
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> where I'd hope to find some rationale behind the deprecation of EGO_SUM. :/ |
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I disagree. Robin has made a pretty complete summary in his mail, with |
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numbers that prove how bad EGO_SUM is/was [1]. While he may have |
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disagreed with dependency tarballs, he brought pretty clear arguments |
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how EGO_SUM is even worse. Multiplied by all the Gentoo systems that |
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won't ever install 95% of Go packages, yet all have to carry their |
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overhead. |
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[1] |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/8e2a4002bfc6258d65dcf725db347cb9 |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |