From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HXhxO-0005QN-5O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:05:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2VI4heq020701; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:04:43 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.241]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2VI2T8T017597 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:02:29 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so767323ana for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:02:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FyBFCaEkeA6wSPCmGDebFs5D6Y5dJtrANr2pyEqjvCqIey2neGTJRpZOEftCeMtihgqVxxzPyDcwJnryOjlEe56PvsDY+DnEgpV0YvfZlOR8q9DD0wuq3JH0qcmiLMeHTALEohxsXw5xF2cKpfmcoRhBKGg/dE7J3PvjUenAAgM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AsBSsQGDPETpWFivk9Cc8zkwJ8m7ZvhvFsFjalxKGWqMpyKR8IYVchitji6+3uN1/M/0Tb2X9B05oRgT/pnbea8xPLP9uZZ1tYT+sCyNcGmcoCgkq/t6KH+B4Mhy1pvZ6h+bQTipAvrHdrLee45HLlpmHOltTKaDd5kUcu3BcHE= Received: by 10.100.7.18 with SMTP id 18mr2371952ang.1175364148772; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:02:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.47.4 with HTTP; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:02:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:02:28 +0200 From: "Christopher Covington" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis In-Reply-To: <200703301404.16400.vapier@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200703240028.15461.peper@gentoo.org> <200703271519.29674.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070327211510.0b426e09@snowflake> <200703301404.16400.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 2182f3d4-6bcb-4484-9c4d-2ea7b0eb40f5 X-Archives-Hash: 8ec4431d4c31a1294ab43f9ed281e6f3 On 3/30/07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > a good topic for the next council meeting i think would be to start up a spec > of requirements that a package manager must satisfy before it'd be an > official package manager for Gentoo ... off the top of my head: > - the main developers need to be Gentoo developers > - source code hosted on Gentoo infrastructure > - compatible "emerge" and "ebuild" binaries > -mike The Comments of a Gentoo User Upon a Minor Point Made by Vapier The first condition you list is a sort of nativism that I for one would expect not to find in a successful copyleft project created on the Internet. Why should the code Gentoo uses be written by Gentoo developers? Nobody seems to have a problem with using someone else's C compiler and installation tools (gcc, autoconf, automake). Resistance to a package manager on the grounds that, "It wasn't originally written by us!" could perhaps push technical arguments that actually matter into the background. Sincerely, Christopher Covington -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list