[gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Alistair Bush posted on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:13:14 +1300 as excerpted:

> I was just thinking how nice it could be if we acknowledged some of the
> projects that contribute to gentoo but are actually developed primarily
> outside of gentoo's dev community.  How about a page on gentoo.org
> 
> So lets me start with a couple of obvious ones.
> 
> kportagetray
> pkgcore
> paludis
> 
> 
> There must be more than these or else gentoo really is dead.
> 
> - Alistair
> 
> ps.  I would like the packages to be specifically for gentoo,  but there
> are exceptions to this.  as an example openrc (and even paludis to a
> degree).  If you think that there is a package not specifically
> targetting gentoo that deserves a mention please make it clear why.

[Hmm... Was followup not set?  It tried to post to the announce list too!  
That's a no-no for replies!  Luckily gmane has it set read-only so my news 
client gave me a warning.]

So you mention openrc, but don't have it on the list?

FWIW, I've not looked, but I think a number of the portage helpers are
non-gentoo-dev developed, and certainly a number previously were, that 
have ultimately been folded back into portage and/or gentoolkit in someway 
or another now.  I'm sure someone from one of those projects can list 
several of them without even looking.

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