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* Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild
  @ 2008-02-25 10:59 99%       ` Jakub Moc
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From: Jakub Moc @ 2008-02-25 10:59 UTC (permalink / raw
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Santiago M. Mola napsal(a):
> This is not going to happen. "Migrating to Nix" means "rewriting the
> distro from scratch".  If you´re interested in a distro built on top
> of Nix, you can try NixOS (which looks really nice IMO).
> 
> Regards,
> Santiago

While we are switching the whole tree to Nix, I'd strongly advocate that:

1/ All ebuilds must be rewritten in whitespace [1]; that will have the 
great side-effect that all those pesky whitespace repoman checks will 
start to be meaningful finally.

2/ All eclasses must be rewritten in Piet [2] at the same time, so that 
we make dev's life a bit more colorful once the former step. is 
finished. There is already a platform-independent IDE ready for this 
purpose after all [3].

Since the benefits of the above are so obvious, I suppose this doesn't 
even require a GLEP and the porting work should therefore start 
immediately to make it in time for 2008.0.

Have a nice day. :P

[1] http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_language)
[3] http://www.rapapaing.com/piet/


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