From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZo6m-0003c3-VN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:08:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7E4FE0ABF; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cicero4.cybercity.dk (cicero4.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB191E0ABF for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from shuttle.zlin.dk (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by cicero4.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 013813CBCF4 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:07:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877BF10405A for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:07:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zlin.dk Received: from shuttle.zlin.dk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (shuttle.zlin.dk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id y0szKR--WdJN for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (dupont.control.auc.dk [130.225.50.60]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFEDB104063 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:07:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Bo =?utf-8?q?=C3=98rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:01:38 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <430880c50803121635g294f505av259707f7e6a746bb@mail.gmail.com> <1205415290.17945.19.camel@nc.nor.wtbts.org> In-Reply-To: <1205415290.17945.19.camel@nc.nor.wtbts.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart13552758.oAOo3keDox"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200803131501.42073.zlin@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: bf0e1777-84d4-4227-8ce2-f2bddf529300 X-Archives-Hash: d6a3e51416c40f6b1425ae1dc868078c --nextPart13552758.oAOo3keDox Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 13 March 2008 14:34:50 Natanael Copa wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:35 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > > I offer my help to fix DEPEND/RDEPEND split issues which is causing me > > a lot of headaches (along with localizations). > > For reference, please have a look here: > > http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=3D105 > > I'm another distro builder that uses the Gentoo framework. I can only > agree. I had to roll my own binary package format and after a short > while I had to do the dependencies myself and just ignore RDEPEND since > it was close to useless. > > While Gentoo is fantasitc to build stuff, the binary packagement has > some serious issues. It would be really nice if Gentoo could be better > on supporting other binary only package managers. We can all agree that Gentoo's binary package support leaves a lot of room = for=20 improvement. But to fix that you need to come up with real solutions and be= =20 prepared to discuss them here and through our bugzilla. And accept the fact= =20 that it will take time... On top of that you need to be able to accept that= =20 we might not agree with your proposed solution for some of the issues... =2D-=20 Bo Andresen Gentoo KDE Dev --nextPart13552758.oAOo3keDox Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBH2TPF8/kKEzmwNNoRAvBCAKC7Eo6pa37ooiTXyUbg1B1pn0PRmACgjTMx uw8LW+zlP8x/j1AMz5SoUGE= =ARz8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart13552758.oAOo3keDox-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list