Re: [gentoo-project] New research: Gentoo Portage Package Dependencies

[Vikraman Choudhury]

Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes:

> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Pavlos Ratis <dastergon@g.o> wrote:
>> Recently I found that there's a new research on Gentoo, specifically
>> for Portage and package dependencies[1].
>
> Thanks for pointing this out!  Anybody know anything about their first
> reference, also from 2014?  As far as I can tell it hasn't been
> published yet but I figured I'd ask here before I go bugging the
> authors.
>

I found this after googling:

http://essay.utwente.nl/61920/1/Remco_Bloemen_-_Innovation_Dynamics_in_Open_Source_Software.pdf

It is a more interesting read compared to the paper.

> Interesting that they picked Gentoo.  It might just be from
> familiarity, but a reason to use Gentoo is that the dependency info
> for a package is separated from the actual distfiles/etc.  Many other
> package formats combine these, though perhaps this data is cached
> somewhere in a format that could be used historically.  If they had
> multiple GB of ebuild files I'd hate to think about what that would
> look like as .debs.
>
> Rich

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Vikraman