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Mark Loeser wrote: |
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> This is the exact problem I'm trying to address. You'll never get all |
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> of the projects to agree, since they all want to go in slightly |
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> different directions and do different things. All three are great |
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> ideas, but we should only support the one that is official for Gentoo, |
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> and not make any changes to the tree. (Note: changes here is any |
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> modification or addition of files in the tree for the sole purpose of |
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> working with an alternate package manager) |
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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... |
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> Either way, I think this is something we should hold off on for now, and |
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> have the council decide upon. We shouldn't just make these changes |
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> without having some discussion taking place (the flamewar on g-dev@ is |
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> not a discussion, and is only a small minority of people giving their |
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> two cents). |
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> Whatever the decision is, the addition of another package manager makes |
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> QA harder to do since we have to consider all of them. Adding a new |
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> package manager and saying we don't support it, nor are we sure if we |
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> will ever support it, does not seem acceptable at all to me. The |
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> decision should be made if we plan on supporting it so we can work on |
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> actually supporting it, or if this should be a completely separate |
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> project and they can work on their own to make changes to ebuilds which |
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> support their own functionality. |
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Yeah, it seems like this type of decision needs to be made by the council, and I hope that they decide against it. |
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