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

[Herb Miller Jr. <herb@hlmjr.com>]

On 03/22/2018 04:17 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. :)
>
Seems to also be blocked by other management tools such as perl-cleaner
and haskell-updater. I'd love to take it for a spin if you have any
suggestions on how to navigate the blocks.

https://paste.pound-python.org/show/VxWWAGW9PpPCS3L4Q6Z3/

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Herb Miller Jr.