Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating repoman

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 09:29:59AM -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 11:09 PM Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 9.3.2022 23.00, Matt Turner wrote:
> > > I'd like to deprecate and ultimately remove repoman. I believe that
> > > dev-util/pkgcheck and pkgcommit (from app-portage/mgorny-dev-scripts)
> > > are far superior replacements, and it makes sense to have people using
> > > the same tool and seeing the same warnings as in the CI.
> > >
> > > Are there any useful checks or behaviors of repoman that are missing
> > > from pkgcheck and pkgcommit?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Matt
> > >
> >
> > I still fail to see the "why" in here. Repoman is better than pure 'git
> > commit' that I know some people still like to use, and as long as it's
> > kept maintained.
> 
> repoman is inferior to other tooling mentioned. The other tooling is
> actually run in CI. Developers should get the same warnings locally as
> in CI. Restated another way: I'm tired of telling people to stop using
> repoman or "pkgcheck would have caught that".

I am going to nit-pick here, but pkgcheck pulls in pkgcore still. As far
asI know, pkgcore was meant to be a portage-like package manager, but it
isn't maintained. So, can we break that dependency before we make
pkgcheck the official tool for qa checks? I would rather not have
pkgcore landing on everyone's systems unless it is usable. If I am wrong
about pkgcore, please correct me and I'll be quiet, but if not let's
make pkgcheck independent from it before we deprecate repoman.

Thanks,

William

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