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On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:44:47 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> After thoroughly reading the docs at... |
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> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-12-27-alternatives-introduction.html |
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> it looks like the hand of him-who-must-not-be-named. Rather than |
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> provide special support for the 1% extreme edge cases, the remaining 99% |
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> of regular users will be dragged through the change. More bloat; and |
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> eselect is on the road to eventual deprecation. |
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"Systems will be more robust and desired system configuration |
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can be achieved using the package manager rather than manual steps |
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outside of it." |
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Sounds quite reasonable to me. As does being able to control everything |
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from within Portage, with USE flags, rather than messing around with |
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eselect. |
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If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more |
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bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but |
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managed differently. |
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