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On 24-03-2009 11:06:53 +0000, Sébastien Fabbro wrote: |
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> If I understand the exherbo folks continued eselect development (which |
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> is stalled in Gentoo) as eclectic [1]. It seems it could cover some |
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> features mentioned in the SoC wiki, but not yet all the features in the |
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> modules. See also msys/softenv [2] for another set of tools doing that |
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> kind of thing. |
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> I don't know who posted the idea, but making consistent and modular |
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> switching tools for Gentoo would be quite nice. I would recommend |
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> check eclectic first. |
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If someone is going to look at eselect, I would prefer if that person |
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could take into account that eselect is currently a big mess for Prefix |
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platforms due to the use of unportable constructs (pgrep et all), and |
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hardcoded paths all over. While the latter is not strictly an eselect |
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problem (although it suffers from it itself a lot), the eselect modules |
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in general are not encouraged to properly use ROOT and install offset |
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IMO. A design that whould encourage that, would most probably help the |
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Prefix project a lot. |
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Last but not least, eselect is horribly slow, so it could use some |
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faster approach for the core, perhaps by using another language than |
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bash. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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