From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-45870-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1Fz30R-0001D9-6D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 02:57:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k682tl97000307; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 02:55:47 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k682nP31005629 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 02:49:25 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so127707nfe for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:49:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=U5UxzSL+k5tmT0CWLnTPpP/axiEyjxGDlvTylkh752HK6lFxDS9a5xcYoh/dKFQWlxfC//+EFJh4R/ZoSPEH5q18TH+Q4U9thjpgqAeQegFcx/ux3t6ZHeMJaj2koWKqfvwHEziihVOWVQSaUgcsQ11NQ5DuKx+zEA8NlEMCNRs= Received: by 10.78.140.17 with SMTP id n17mr957592hud; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.20.11 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640607071949i617b11d8ka84fce7e11db6425@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:49:25 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved In-Reply-To: <44AF166E.5080000@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44AEB475.8000702@maestroprogramador.com> <e5a3e9ac0607071747t41e9e750m95cb2bca1f72ab04@mail.gmail.com> <44AF166E.5080000@gentoo.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3bf8a8c6b9560c93 X-Archives-Salt: 4663e955-eb7e-42e6-9001-6e23c40ba243 X-Archives-Hash: 64a1e125029ccb3877e3df558420ddcc On 7/7/06, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote: > emerge/portage has lots of room for improvement. Lots of the code is quite messy and it has been largely neglected because most people simply refuse to do much work on such a mess. However, since I've joined the project, I've been doing doing lots of work to clean up this code that most people won't touch. It's getting better, slowly but surely. /me bowes in reverence to Zac. :-) -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list