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On 2021-02-09 Tue 17:51, Benda Xu wrote: |
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> I am wondering how useable pkgcore is on alpha, hppa, etc. Maybe it's |
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> time for us to plan for a Gentoo without essential Python dependency. |
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Just to keep misinformation down, pkgcore currently has nothing to do |
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with rust as it's implemented in python due to basically being deemed |
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portage-ng when it forked ~15 years ago. It previously did have some |
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extensions written in C which have mostly been removed in the current |
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day from CPython catching up in a number of areas. |
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That being said, alternative languages and related support has been |
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looked at for a number of reasons/features and development could move in |
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that direction, but hasn't yet in a public fashion. |
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Tim |
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