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On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:01:45 +0300 |
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Consus <consus@××××.net> wrote: |
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> Yeah, mgorny likes to do some provocative stuff like forking Portage. |
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Why the hell not? |
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Once you have a source-based distro the package manager can be a |
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matter of choice also -- so long as it accepts the existing |
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package constructs as input. |
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As pointed out earlier, Gentoo hasn't forked often, it's |
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configurable enough that noone needs to fork it to have the |
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results meet their needs. |
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Pretty much the only thing we all have to have in common is the |
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portage source packages; after that there could easily be |
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mutliple installers. If you use an offball product you'd have |
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to rely on whomever hacked it to get support -- vs. hitting up |
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the usual gentoo list for help -- but if satisfies your needs |
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using "frobnicate install..." why would having second package |
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manager be all that bad? |
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