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 1FgCBi-0002n7-ES for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 02:55:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4H2t18Y005652; Wed, 17 May 2006 02:55:01 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 k4H2t07t022225 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 02:55:01 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755576430A for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 02:55:00 +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 30696-16-2 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 02:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.24.6] (ip68-5-234-231.oc.oc.cox.net [68.5.234.231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA80D642CF for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 02:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <446A907D.8040504@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 19:54:53 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060506) 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 To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] Support of other package managers References: <20060516174812.GE7092@aerie.halcy0n.com> <448F0F30.3000302@gentoo.org> <20060516195654.GA260@woodpecker.gentoo.org> <446A4E17.8010203@gentoo.org> <20060516235713.GA10815@aerie.halcy0n.com> In-Reply-To: <20060516235713.GA10815@aerie.halcy0n.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.259 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.606, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL=1.946] X-Spam-Score: -1.259 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 508093b8-264e-4c72-85f3-6cfe683278ba X-Archives-Hash: ffc72e7705bcc94ef530f21af0f872c7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Loeser wrote: > This is the exact problem I'm trying to address. You'll never get all > of the projects to agree, since they all want to go in slightly > different directions and do different things. All three are great > ideas, but we should only support the one that is official for Gentoo, > and not make any changes to the tree. (Note: changes here is any > modification or addition of files in the tree for the sole purpose of > working with an alternate package manager) I don't see any reason to include support for a non-official package manager in the official gentoo repo either (given that they can host their own repository and include whatever they want). For the sake of interoperability, I hope that the developers of these separate package managers can come together and agree on some specifications, but that's a topic for another list... > Either way, I think this is something we should hold off on for now, and > have the council decide upon. We shouldn't just make these changes > without having some discussion taking place (the flamewar on g-dev@ is > not a discussion, and is only a small minority of people giving their > two cents). > > Whatever the decision is, the addition of another package manager makes > QA harder to do since we have to consider all of them. Adding a new > package manager and saying we don't support it, nor are we sure if we > will ever support it, does not seem acceptable at all to me. 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. Yeah, it seems like this type of decision needs to be made by the council, and I hope that they decide against it. Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEapB8/ejvha5XGaMRAvJOAJ9D9bkg7UoMynFNND+S8UJfLurDlwCeLeJH EzwX3OXW21TjqytMynWfwUE= =aGr0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-qa@gentoo.org mailing list