[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML

[Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>]

Stephen P. Becker wrote:
>> So (without a Portage tree) it replaces the oldgrown single-liner
>> wget foo; tar -xzf foo; cd foo; ./configure; make; make install
> 
> Are you implying that there would be much more involved with anything
> currently in the gentoo tree in the absence of portage?
> 
> /me cracks the bell
> 
Er the discussion was about paludis without Gentoo ebuilds, not upstream
software, or Gentoo without its package-manager(?!) If it's so great
and "The Portage tree is not the only package repository out there..." why
not prove it with a whole maintainable OS install using Paludis and zero
Gentoo ebuilds?

Personally, I'd do Paludis for sourcemage, although I don't know whether
anyone would want to switch from the approved package manager on that
distro either. Still, since it's so amazing, I am sure you would be able to
prove it was better, and it would win on technical merit.

(BTW posting links to an external website's code when specifically asked
about algorithms on a developer list is bad form imo. It presumes on the
time of your audience, some of whom actually work, and might have
intellectual property constraints on whose code they can read. In future
please just outline the algorithm for the issue at hand, if you have one.)


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