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On 4/22/20 11:22 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:01 PM, Consus <consus@××××.net> wrote: |
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>> Yeah, mgorny likes to do some provocative stuff like forking Portage. |
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> patching P*****E is heretic, and forking it is |
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> outright blasphemous. |
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For everyone complaining about how long emerge @world takes, and about |
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the incomprehensible error messages -- this fork was a step towards |
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fixing that. Portage does some slow, unpredictable, undocumented magic |
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when resolving dependencies that it never should have done in the first |
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place. Developers using portage then make commits that appear to work |
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with portage, but won't work in any other PMS-compliant package manager, |
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and often don't work in portage itself when given slightly different |
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command-line options. |
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Portage was forked because the current maintainers insist on leaving it |
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broken to "avoid the phone calls." There are still problems, but this |
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way people don't realize they're portage's fault. |
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