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On 7/7/06, Rafael Fernández López <info@××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that |
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> fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things |
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> can be improved in this wonderful distro. |
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I've got a small list of personal pet peeves as well. However, |
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overall Gentoo is beyond excellent. It also gets the honour of being |
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the Distro I've stuck with the longest. |
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> The first thing that I'd change is "etc-update" or "dispatch-conf". I'd |
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> suggest to create some kind of tool like "dpkg-reconfigure" in Debian. |
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> More intuitive than reading /etc files and writing them by hand that is |
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> more probably to be mistaken when writing. |
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Might want to include parts of dpkg in that tool. No sense in |
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re-inventing the wheel, eh? |
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> Second thing that I'd improve is a security one. I know that "emerge" |
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> is a very cared package, but it is a script. Suppose that someone |
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> commits portage with a emerge failure in its code (he forgot a comma |
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> !!)... if someone updates portage won't be able to update it again |
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> because it will fail ever and ever again... So I suggest to have a |
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> backuped emerge script that we are sure that worked (like the last |
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> emerge tool that was used), and if the new emerge tool is mistaken (so |
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> that user doesn't need to know python) only has to run "regenemerge" for |
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> example, and will have the latest emerge working tool. |
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It wouldn't have gotten off of the guy's test box I'd think. |
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My personal gripe is how slow emerge is on just plain old emerge-ish |
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things. That we have to use things like eix to search is pathetic. |
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This NEVER happened in Debian. |
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I also am considering trying to adapt aptitude to Gentoo. I think |
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aptitude is the best thing since... anyways, I love aptitude and want |
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to make it portage-friendly. Just having a command-line package |
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browser like aptitude in Gentoo would be awesome. |
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Now is the time to tell me how incredibly stupid I am for imagining |
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something like that. Otherwise I might just fire up KDevelop, grab a |
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copy of aptitude, and start working. I'm known to do things like |
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that. |
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> If I have more ideas I'll tell ya. |
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Same here. |
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