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From: Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:08:31
Message-Id: 20070315181745.2f7b160c@maya
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems by Jakob Buchgraber
1 On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:40:05 +0100
2 Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > So why don't you start rewriting, refactoring and improving the
5 > portage source? It definitely doesn't make sense to create a
6 > competing package management system.
7
8 I think you underestimate just how much rewriting and refactoring would
9 be required in order to produce something sane and scalable. Starting
10 from scratch really was the only real option to get anywhere
11 significant in a reasonable timeframe.
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