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On Wednesday 17 May 2006 15:50, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 17 May 2006 01:58:02 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> |
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> | I haven't had a look at Paludis (the name sucks as much as the name |
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> | eselect had, before it was named eselect, btw.) yet, so I don't have |
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> | an opinion on it |
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> Aah, and this sums up this entire thread. "The name sucks. I haven't |
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> used it. It isn't pink enough." |
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Please do not mix up the flaming between you and Diego with my email. Yes, it |
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isn't pink enough and I don't like your ponytail either. :p |
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> Nice idea in theory. In reality, Portage is a big incestuous mess and |
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> can't have that kind of change made to it |
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The former yes, the latter statement is questionable. |
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> , and defining such an |
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> interface between package manager parts would take considerably more |
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> time and code than just rewriting the whole thing. |
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That won't mean you face the same situation at one point again, so you likely |
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have to spent the same or even more amount of time, just over a longer time |
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frame. |
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> Having said that, |
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> you can swap around pretty much any component of Paludis, since it's |
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> proper modular code -- Kugelfang has a mostly working implementation of |
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> a CRAN repository, for example. |
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Doesn't sound like independent runtime components, as I am proposing. |
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Carsten |
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