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Jakob Buchgraber wrote: |
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> Why don't you join the portage team and try to persuade the current |
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> portage devs and help to implement the "killer features"? |
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The main problem with such projects is that you cannot do some stuff in |
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an easy way, that's the reason you have from scratch rewrite of 2.0 |
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codebases many times. You take the wisdom from the design errors you had |
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the first time and move to a better design. |
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> So instead of saying that portage is missing features and developing |
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> your own pm you could be even more productive and help improving portage. |
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Not really. |
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> Why don't ya do that? |
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Because he knew that it would take less rewriting from scratch. |
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now, having paludis and pkgcore around makes even portage improving |
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since you can compare different ideas and have more inputs on how things |
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could be done. |
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lu - I like independent implementation, xine and mplayer won't be that |
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good w/out each other. |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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