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On 3/30/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> a good topic for the next council meeting i think would be to start up a spec |
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> of requirements that a package manager must satisfy before it'd be an |
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> official package manager for Gentoo ... off the top of my head: |
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> - the main developers need to be Gentoo developers |
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> - source code hosted on Gentoo infrastructure |
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> - compatible "emerge" and "ebuild" binaries |
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> -mike |
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The Comments of a Gentoo User Upon a Minor Point Made by Vapier |
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The first condition you list is a sort of nativism that I for one |
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would expect not to find in a successful copyleft project created on |
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the Internet. Why should the code Gentoo uses be written by Gentoo |
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developers? Nobody seems to have a problem with using someone else's C |
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compiler and installation tools (gcc, autoconf, automake). Resistance |
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to a package manager on the grounds that, "It wasn't originally |
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written by us!" could perhaps push technical arguments that actually |
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matter into the background. |
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Sincerely, |
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Christopher Covington |
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