From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FgFFW-0004wJ-SI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 06:11:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4H6BaCp021258; Wed, 17 May 2006 06:11:36 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4H6BZvZ030649 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 06:11:35 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8658642DA for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 06:11:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09018-14 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 06:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home.wh0rd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648BE64360 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 06:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22252 invoked from network); 17 May 2006 02:06:47 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 17 May 2006 02:06:47 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] Support of other package managers Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 02:13:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060516174812.GE7092@aerie.halcy0n.com> <446A4E17.8010203@gentoo.org> <20060516235713.GA10815@aerie.halcy0n.com> In-Reply-To: <20060516235713.GA10815@aerie.halcy0n.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-qa@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1301782.AfnaH71erx"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200605170213.29234.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.375 required=5.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, AWL=0.024, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -4.375 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 7ac2f13c-a0a8-4da4-b38b-6a482467cfd6 X-Archives-Hash: bdf2ccb07915e4f0ea2e570f335629dc --nextPart1301782.AfnaH71erx Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 16 May 2006 19:57, Mark Loeser wrote: > Whatever the decision is, the addition of another package manager makes > QA harder to do since we have to consider all of them. not really ... you have one official manager and QA tests with that > The > decision should be made if we plan on supporting it so we can work on > actually supporting it, or if this should be a completely separate > project and they can work on their own to make changes to ebuilds which > support their own functionality. why do we have to support it ? this seems like a perfectly good applicatio= n=20 of EAPI that the portage peeps keep talking about if you have a hard dcument of what it means to be compatible with EAPI=3D0,= then=20 i see no reason to block any package manager that conforms to it whatever the latest EAPI version that the official package manager (portage= is=20 the current official one) supports is what the tree must conform to =2Dmike --nextPart1301782.AfnaH71erx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARGq/CUFjO5/oN/WBAQKt6Q/+K0D/vqGuSXivREhyNFDt6TnpBAdjOwoK A1NLQSdNnYsEuN1bVgAGuVj1bOJ35cEWiTmzkPM6qryn+akVXkSjyyno4XlUbIu2 MO5MGpbazvUVBv1yFc01JUT0p8IJF5Lkp27ajqyYsV7uEN6ZunqFlrKGl062ZEmy 7X4rXisrYn7NmjTGYec1kF8dyNIfMgiAltnOTdDy2HceQRFuigVzv9bdVb+CzxAW VXluYnaACLCLyDQRexc5FSNAVobJv3a+PB7YjQu/YOjy1DG/1RuT34b3qF0xBI7K kLrr6+MXD6/MWy0/zKiNzVqvxX2kkBzsrHMwlOMNDk2qanXVTqPlFgC0rOWxpPl2 aR3dYdwpnKtpgYPmdJMREqholRoqT3xT4sk9X0Q4hu0pJ62u+1rZQQUIMw47fXK3 ncR6mWioxGcgXG55K5W4BRamBRvJK+R4qdlY60z6e6EoTEeLET9W9khjRJOFmMuX utazLOKXGmawDVeFfu+Sr48xQMCjgT53N2WZe9Ku6b7/DmKoV1KqZ7Olr5Duw84G s/3Wlls1IeaA+Wy0ax8ndLJslfzMq+62rUJ2Ah5TMxgtlCJqYh+2rt/Uli7ak6a9 /Xkpo4mbHVJlYhJdSR3tMdhr/aFuM5fCY3+jqnZfKuoZFtrw6dy1g+UFovVY2g6f sPukiMdkqco= =+jWQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1301782.AfnaH71erx-- -- gentoo-qa@gentoo.org mailing list