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On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 19:21 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> El dom, 16-06-2013 a las 10:09 -0700, Brian Dolbec escribió: |
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> > Thank you for considering helping. I have stayed away form the |
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> > intricate details of package management in the past, but I also do not |
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> > like how long portage is taking now for dep calculations. |
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> And, cannot that efforts be put in enhancing portage instead? |
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Many of the speed improvements currently in portage CAME from Brian's |
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work in pkgcore. But there comes a time when you can do only so much |
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with the framework that portage is based upon. Pkgcore's base framework |
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is done differently and more efficiently, which is a good deal of why it |
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is so much faster than portage. |
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It has been long past due for gentoo to switch to the newer, better base |
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framework that is pkgcore and enhance it. |
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But, as you can see in gentoo's package management history for portage |
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and pkgcore, development tends to be a lonely endeavour, with the brunt |
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of it lying solely on one developer. That has currently been the case |
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for portage for the past many years as well. Others have chipped in, |
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including myself, but it is Zac that is doing most of it. Too many |
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others have started a PM in c, c++, to replace portage, with only |
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paludis having come into usable existence. |
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