Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 04:02:50 -0500 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
wrote:
> On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > If there's some value to be found in having PMS ready by a
> > particular date that I'm missing then I want to hear it so that I
> > can spend more time working on PMS and less on other things.
>
> semantics aside, how much time you dedicate is entirely up to you and
> really, i dont think there's too many developers who honestly care
> how that affects you

Well yes, but I'm perfectly prepared to reprioritise things if there's
a good reason for it. If there's a real need for PMS to be done by a
particular date, PMS can be done by said date.

> i consider having a spelled out EAPI=0 spec to be quite valuable and
> worth spending time on and i have to say that i get the feeling that
> i'm not alone on this point

Yes, but I'd like to hear *why*. Not only for the prioritisation
aspect, but also to make sure that what's being written matches the
needs of the people that will be using it.

> having a behavior explanation cuts back on the "well it works in
> portage so go screw yourself" mentality and replaces it with "package
> manger foo does not behave according to spec" which certainly opens
> up the door for people to use alternative package managers with the
> Gentoo ebuild tree

So is alternative package manager support something that's considered
important and a priority by the Council?

> (hmm we're gonna have to stop referring to it as the "Gentoo portage
> tree" eh)

Funnily enough, the Paludis class that deals with ebuild trees is
called PortageRepository. I don't particularly like the name...

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Ciaran McCreesh
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