Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

["Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Where possible, we exclude things that break Portage. Are you
> suggesting that we should instead ignore what EAPI-0-supporting Portage
> does and does not handle and just document things the way we'd like
> them to be?

Wait, what?

"Where possible" ?

PMS is supposed to be a specification which is as close to Gentoo's
Official Package manager's behaviour as possible while (preferably)
leaving out deprecated behaviour. But right now you're saying:

"We're writing a spec that's somewhat like Portage, but where it
breaks Paludis, we prefer to get Portage to change it's behaviour
instead. Don't crib about this however. We could just have easily have
created a whole new spec which broke Portage completely."

I hope everyone realises just how ridiculous this is.

PS: An example of something in PMS that is different from Portage:
inline comments are disallowed. The only reason I can think for doing
this is to not make Paludis change it's behaviour.

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