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On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 20:56:42 -0500 Kito <kito@g.o> wrote: |
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> | Its not like this is unchartered territory... off the top o' |
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> | me head pkgsrc, DarwinPorts, openpkg, fink, written word, |
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> | autopackage, MINE, and SamHain have all tackled this in one way or |
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> | the other. All of these projects have their faults (duh? but then |
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> | again so does portage and the ebuild tree) but a few of them have |
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> | been quite successful despite their varying points of inherent |
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> | silliness. |
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> Sure. They work around it by having lots and lots of workaround code, |
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> not by solving the original problem. |
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Most of the workaround code I see in the few of these I'm acquainted |
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with is in the various bootstrap mechanisms, and the general |
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deficiency of the underlying PM, i.e. no sane package versioning |
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scheme (ports like python24, gcc3,gcc4, etc.), no globally defined |
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'build opts'(read: use flags), and nowhere to store platform specific |
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knowledge (profiles), so all that crap ends up being stuffed directly |
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in their portfiles. |
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> -- |
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> Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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> Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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> Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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