On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 06:05:00PM -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> I think Gentoo council, developers, and portage developers should
> consider changing the PMS, to something like Portage Manager
> Specification, or Gentoo Portage Specification. Make it Gentoo
> and portage specific, and others adhere to that standard.

If you have a look at the Package Manager Specification project page[1]
it notes that this is how it worked previously and was decided against.

Personally, given that Gentoo is a meta-distribution, it makes more
sense to me to have an independent specification for things like this
and have the "default" package manager essentially be the reference
implementation of the specification. If there's a better way to do
something than what is defined in PMS, then perhaps suggest an update to
it.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Package_Manager_Specification

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