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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:52:05
Message-Id: 4F5E99FC.80209@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 03/13/12 02:28, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 [snip lots of political rhetoric]
3 >
4 > GLEP 55 is simple,
5 No.
6
7 > it solves all the problems we have
8 No, it just tries to shove them under the carpet
9
10 > (including the
11 > version issue, which everyone is conveniently ignoring),
12 Say what?
13
14 > it doesn't require us to guess what's going to happen next and it can be
15 > implemented immediately.
16 So can migrating the tree to posix-only "ebuilds", but at what cost, and
17 what do we gain from it?
18
19 > That's a rather big deal.
20 So is switching to Arch Linux.
21
22
23 ... why would we want to do such things?!