Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

[Jakob Buchgraber]

Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:40:05 +0100
> Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
>
>> So why don't you start rewriting, refactoring and improving the
>> portage source? It definitely doesn't make sense to create a
>> competing package management system.
>>
>
> "Patches welcome", I think is the appropriate response :)
>
> Seriously, if you want portage to be re-factored, just go ahead and do
> it; there's nothing to stop you.
>
>
Good answer. :)

Ok. I have to admit that I have no clue of python (but of other 
languages), but if somebody is going to refactor portage I'll learn 
python and try to help as much as I can.
As I think (from a technical point of view) portage is one of the (if 
not the) most important aspects of Gentoo. Lot's of people started using 
Gentoo because of portage as one of the main reasons (including me). It 
was really a nice piece of software (from a users point of view) at the 
beginning, but when I used it more frequently and tried to manage the 
packages on my system I started missing some features that other 
distributions and paludis have. E.g. I really like the dependency 
uninstalling feature and the support for different repos and ...

So I just think something has to be changed e.g. making paludis an 
official gentoo project and mentioning it in the docs, but keep portage 
as the default pm.
If portage can't get improved, then people have to get informed that  
there is a better alternative, because I know a lot of Gentoo users 
having never heard about paludis and I also didn't know that it even 
exists until a month ago.

Cheers,
Jay

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