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On Tuesday 29 June 2010 20:08:34 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > I mentioned this on -dev once when this topic came up. Thing is, |
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> > portage is not the only package manager being used. Personally I think |
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> > portage should be the official package manager and if you chose to use |
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> > something else, you should know what not to do to the system. |
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> That's restrictive and un-Gentoo-like. The official package manager is |
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> anything that follows the EAPI specs. |
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I wholeheartedly agree. There shouldn't even BE such a thing as a standard |
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package manager, there should only be standards. Otherwise you get into the |
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standard being |
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"whatever portage is doing today" - a moving target at best |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |