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From: Vikraman Choudhury <vikraman@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] New research: Gentoo Portage Package Dependencies
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 06:38:48 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2f9z273.fsf@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_kY3jHgTxaYyZRe7Oix9mNeU6aDQpukxSmpza-4Y1sktg@mail.gmail.com>

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Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Pavlos Ratis <dastergon@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Recently I found that there's a new research on Gentoo, specifically
>> for Portage and package dependencies[1].
>
> Thanks for pointing this out!  Anybody know anything about their first
> reference, also from 2014?  As far as I can tell it hasn't been
> published yet but I figured I'd ask here before I go bugging the
> authors.
>

I found this after googling:

http://essay.utwente.nl/61920/1/Remco_Bloemen_-_Innovation_Dynamics_in_Open_Source_Software.pdf

It is a more interesting read compared to the paper.

> Interesting that they picked Gentoo.  It might just be from
> familiarity, but a reason to use Gentoo is that the dependency info
> for a package is separated from the actual distfiles/etc.  Many other
> package formats combine these, though perhaps this data is cached
> somewhere in a format that could be used historically.  If they had
> multiple GB of ebuild files I'd hate to think about what that would
> look like as .debs.
>
> Rich

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Vikraman

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19 10:24 [gentoo-project] New research: Gentoo Portage Package Dependencies Pavlos Ratis
2014-05-19 18:06 ` Rich Freeman
2014-05-20  1:08   ` Vikraman Choudhury [this message]
2014-05-20  0:02 ` Patrick Lauer

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