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On 03/22/2018 01:17 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:03:46 +0100 |
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> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> After 2+ years of repeating disagreements with Portage maintainer(s) |
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>> I have finally decided to fork Portage. My little fork uses technical |
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>> name of 'portage[mgorny]' [1] (to distinguish it from mainline Portage), |
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>> and aims to focus on cleaning up code and adding useful features with |
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>> less concern for infinite bug-by-bug compatibility. |
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> I hope you will continue with our efforts to drive regular Portage |
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> forwards too. It's been a long road but also very productive. |
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> I notice that your fork cannot be installed at the same time as regular |
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> Portage. I think this will really hinder any interest in it. As |
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> Gentoo developers, we obviously have to make sure things work with the |
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> official package manager and that goes for you too. Would it be |
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> possible for them to coexist? I'm not saying I'll try it though, just |
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> making a suggestion. :) |
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You can probably use the PATH/PYTHONPATH approach described here as long |
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as support for that has not been eliminated: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage#Testing_Portage |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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