From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15CE815808B for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:18:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B871E091A; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:18:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tsukuyomi.43-1.org (tsukuyomi.43-1.org [IPv6:2a01:4f8:c2c:1632::1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8576E0903 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:18:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Matthias Maier To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating repoman In-Reply-To: (Matt Turner's message of "Wed, 9 Mar 2022 15:32:18 -0800") References: <87k0d2x0wy.fsf@gentoo.org> <87fsnqwybd.fsf@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:17:59 -0600 Message-ID: <87sfrqd5jc.fsf@gentoo.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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: b6d7d86b-701f-4c28-a58e-92ddbdbcca30 X-Archives-Hash: 71180e926b334f7ec3cd70d899880873 On Wed, Mar 9, 2022, at 17:32 CST, Matt Turner wrote: > I think you just made that number up :) Nah. My sample was just bad (ago just made a sizable number of commits. I would estimate the current usage of repoman to be about 20-25%, down from well over 80-90% back when we just switched to git: https://tamiko.43-1.org/temp/repoman-usage.pdf >> For example, dev-util/pkgdev was suggested as an alternative, but I >> cannot assess whether this is indeed a viable alternative. > > Why not? Because I haven't used it so far. > Give it a try. Absolutely, the faster I can ditch repoman, the better. Best, Matthias