Re: [gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

[Mounir Lamouri <volkmar@gentoo.org>]

Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Steve Dommett<steve@st4vs.net> wrote:
>   
>> I'm no Python programmer,  and I haven't even read the code involved,  but in
>> the interests of minimising duplication of effort,  I thought you'd be
>> interested to know that Sabayon,  a Gentoo based binary distro,  look like
>> they may be one step ahead of you on this one:
>> http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=playground/packagekit-entropy.git;a=summary
>>
>>     
>
> It's a stub import (no real code). And the git import is also done
> incorrectly, he's imported .libs/ and .deps/ which are build-time
> files. So, I'd say he looked at *this* project and decided to try
> writing a backend for Entropy as well.
>
>
>   
Like Nirbheek said, there is no real code so I'm not sure they are one
step ahead of me on this project.
In addition, they should ask for a packagekit git access. It's easy to
get one and surely better than working in your own playground.

Mounir