On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:30:04 +0200 Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote: > > And we'd be starting on the next batch of "oh, we need to wait > > another year". Had GLEP 55's necessity been accepted a year ago, > > we'd have a whole bunch of requested features implemented by now. > > > > I doubt Portage would have gained new features any faster. Some useful things that are currently difficult become a lot easier to implement with GLEP 55. Per-package eclasses, for example, are easy if you don't have to care about the upgrade path, as is replacing versionator with a package manager internal. The complexity for both of those is in the upgrade path, not the implementation. -- Ciaran McCreesh