On Saturday 25 October 2003 22:39, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Saturday 25 October 2003 22:23, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> >
> > I'm not very good with Python, but I'm interested in helping to design a
> > better dependency checker. Could you give me a summary of the way the
> > checker currently works or point me to a document that describes it? Or
> > should I just learn Python?
>
> Currently pvdabeel is working on a dependency checker. You should talk with
> him about it (I'm not working on portage myself). Depending on your skill
> set you might be happy to hear it has more to do with graph theory and
> graph walking algorithms (like Dijkstra's shortest path), than with python.

Also there is a mailing list for future portage development. While it is 
rather quiet there currently, it is meant to discuss portage developments. It 
is gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org

Paul

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