From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from evolution.brianandsara.net (doc-65-248-107-48.cn.tx.cebridge.net [65.248.107.48]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j433G2ah029946 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 03:16:03 GMT Received: from matrix.brianandsara.net ([::ffff:192.168.10.14]) by evolution.brianandsara.net with esmtp; Mon, 02 May 2005 22:16:04 -0500 id 004C84D0.4276ECF4.000018B5 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager From: Brian Jackson To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050503024810.GB10998@exodus.wit.org> References: <42761B77.4030206@salomon.at> <42767C63.40400@gentoo.org> <4276CCC5.1080602@egr.msu.edu> <1115086263.24870.7.camel@matrix.brianandsara.net> <20050503024810.GB10998@exodus.wit.org> Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 22:16:03 -0500 Message-Id: <1115090163.24870.11.camel@matrix.brianandsara.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: 5b5cbb7f-6bbc-406d-8117-e31d31c292ff X-Archives-Hash: d6c2d3f23ae07c6151f7c9d33e35ede1 On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 21:48 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: > > > If you want some package manager > > for your solaris/x86 box(just an example!), go talk to the people that > > do openembedded. > > Clarify why portage, which _does_ function as a secondary pkg manager > (collision-protect wouldn't exist otherwise) wouldn't suffice if > someone gave enough of a damn to do the work? > > So yeah, anyone care to comment about the proposal's specifics, rather > then "piss off, no..." ? :) No, that pretty much sums up how I feel about it and all these other pet projects that keep popping up (I'm guilty of a few myself... s390 anyone?). The ones that make it. Cool, good for you. The other 98% of them would have been better off if they had me disuading them to begin with. --Iggy > ~brian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list