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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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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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