Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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On 03/22/2018 01:17 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:03:46 +0100
> Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> After 2+ years of repeating disagreements with Portage maintainer(s)
>> I have finally decided to fork Portage. My little fork uses technical
>> name of 'portage[mgorny]' [1] (to distinguish it from mainline Portage),
>> and aims to focus on cleaning up code and adding useful features with
>> less concern for infinite bug-by-bug compatibility.
> 
> I hope you will continue with our efforts to drive regular Portage
> forwards too. It's been a long road but also very productive.
> 
> I notice that your fork cannot be installed at the same time as regular
> Portage. I think this will really hinder any interest in it. As
> Gentoo developers, we obviously have to make sure things work with the
> official package manager and that goes for you too. Would it be
> possible for them to coexist? I'm not saying I'll try it though, just
> making a suggestion. :)
> 

You can probably use the PATH/PYTHONPATH approach described here as long
as support for that has not been eliminated:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage#Testing_Portage
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Thanks,
Zac


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