Re: [gentoo-science] sci team help

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

On 16:03 Tue 16 Oct     , Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 06:57 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
> > 1. I'm not sure the idea of integrating, say, R packages, into Portage 
> > is a good one. Debian has a lot of R packages in their repository, but 
> > that's mainly because one developer, Dirk Eddelbuettel, took that on as 
> > a personal mission. For that matter, I don't know that Portage really 
> > *needs* to have "tight" integration with any other package management 
> > systems. In other words, does a CPAN Perl package really need to be 
> > wrapped in an ebuild, or could a Gentoo user just as easily install CPAN 
> > packages directly? The same goes for Ruby gems -- it's only marginally 
> > more convenient for a Rubyist to have gems in Portage, and you'll never 
> > have them *all. If you have the developer resources, sure, why not, but 
> > aren't there better things the developers could be doing? In any event, 
> > I use R and its packages heavily and don't see the need to "emerge 
> > Rcmdr" -- R's native package management system is fine. So is Ruby's 
> > "rubygems" package management system.
> 
> Not saying 100 R packages  => 100 ebuilds, but passing proper flags,
> building deps and all could be wrapped in a nice gentoo way (btw, is
> paludis doing this?). Anyway this was just a project idea in a todo list
> and should go to another thread, or the corresponding bug. 

Paludis does support CRAN, according to its docs. I don't use it so I 
can't comment on the details.

Portage already has g-cpan.pl to automatically integrate Perl; there's 
projects to do the same thing with the Python Cheese Shop and Ruby gems 
as well.

Thanks,
Donnie
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