From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC6C1381FA for ; Tue, 20 May 2014 01:09:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D954E0AEA; Tue, 20 May 2014 01:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABA3CE0AE7 for ; Tue, 20 May 2014 01:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [202.3.77.223]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: vikraman) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 316D533FFBD for ; Tue, 20 May 2014 01:08:57 +0000 (UTC) References: User-agent: mu4e 0.9.9.6pre3; emacs 24.3.1 From: Vikraman Choudhury To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] New research: Gentoo Portage Package Dependencies In-reply-to: Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 06:38:48 +0530 Message-ID: <87d2f9z273.fsf@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 788aa6ba-bea8-46fd-8f44-f679241ea6df X-Archives-Hash: faf69024b9a100085c39edc3694b4559 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iL4EAREKAGYFAlN6qyRfFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldENFNTJBQkRBNTQzRTQ5NTdCMDQ5ODMwNzQ3 REQ1NDg0QjBBNzJGRDIACgkQR91UhLCnL9LHRAD/RVHDvibwjlvm7Ctv3h5NdKja e0D5XQKvoez5SGspUisBALVyw/HGwUZiX5b+i/7lsRszuXfaFWNLd46KOV2gOjCv =zlAV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--