Rich Freeman writes: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Pavlos Ratis 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 -- Vikraman