Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-ng concurse entry Was: Updated Portage project page

[Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:35:11PM -0700, Daniel Robbins wrote:

> For backwards compatibility with existing ebuilds, yes we will probably
> still need the metadata cache since we'll still have some kind of bash
> linkage. It's important to point out that the design of portage-ng will
> not be tied to ebuilds. Ebuilds will likely become "legacy" build
> scripts that are superceded by something a lot better, cleaner, powerful
> and also faster for portage-ng.
> 

Please keep in mind that a significant number of users have expressed a 
fondness for ebuilds precisely because they can apply simple bash 
scripting knowledge to create a complex build script. Any new format 
should probably aim for similar syntax for precisely that reason.

(But this is getting way ahead of things.)

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