Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds not getting in :(

[Peter Fein <pfein@pobox.com>]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:56:16 -0500
Brian Jackson <brian@mdrx.com> wrote:

> I know talking to myself this much in one day is bad, but I setup an rsync 
> server. It is at:
> rsync://www.mdrx.com/portage-local
> 
> you can run the following to check it out:
> rsync -rz rsync://www.mdrx.com/portage-local .

Actually, more formal support for multiple sync sources would be *highly*
cool & would really make portage a "meta-distribution".  I could also see this
being useful for officially supported builds, as this readily solves the "I
never want to even sync anything X11" problem.

On a (barely) related extensibility note, I've found it really hard to work on
even short patches to portage/emerge.  portage.py is almost 4600 lines, emerge
is almost 1900. My point being that's a pretty good size for a single code unit
in any language, but enormous for python.  Try

find /usr/lib/python2.2/ -iname "*.py" |xargs wc -l |sort -n -r

and keep in mind that the standard modules have a lot more documentation.  And
to cut off the inevitable criticism of this metric, these modules do import each
other & use C libs.  That's my point.  The lack of modularity & the presence of
top-level code makes reuse really tough- I'd love to work on a GTK'd or web'd
emerge or 30 other scripts, but everything's so intertwined that it's not
feasible to reuse code.

More user whining, I know.  I don't quite know what I'm suggesting as a
solution, short of offering to help.

--Pete

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