Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

W dniu czw, 22.03.2018 o godzinie 20∶17 +0000, użytkownik James Le
Cuirot napisał:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:03:46 +0100
> Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > After 2+ years of repeating disagreements with Portage maintainer(s)
> > I have finally decided to fork Portage. My little fork uses technical
> > name of 'portage[mgorny]' [1] (to distinguish it from mainline Portage),
> > and aims to focus on cleaning up code and adding useful features with
> > less concern for infinite bug-by-bug compatibility.
> 
> I hope you will continue with our efforts to drive regular Portage
> forwards too. It's been a long road but also very productive.
> 
> I notice that your fork cannot be installed at the same time as regular
> Portage. I think this will really hinder any interest in it.

Making them co-installable would require creating divergent packages
and eventually making a huge mess of almost-identical-but-different
Python modules. It's not worth the effort, especially that the two
projects are not that divergent.

>  As
> Gentoo developers, we obviously have to make sure things work with the
> official package manager and that goes for you too. Would it be
> possible for them to coexist? I'm not saying I'll try it though, just
> making a suggestion. :)

As Gentoo developers, we have have to make sure things work with *all*
package managers. That's why we have standards and policies. Unlike
mainline Portage, portage[mgorny] follows those policies strictly
and therefore any ebuild that works with it should also work with
mainline Portage.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny