Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

["Lord Sauron" <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>]

On 7/7/06, Rafael Fernández López <info@maestroprogramador.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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>         This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that
> fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things
> can be improved in this wonderful distro.

I've got a small list of personal pet peeves as well.  However,
overall Gentoo is beyond excellent.  It also gets the honour of being
the Distro I've stuck with the longest.

>         The first thing that I'd change is "etc-update" or "dispatch-conf". I'd
> suggest to create some kind of tool like "dpkg-reconfigure" in Debian.
> More intuitive than reading /etc files and writing them by hand that is
> more probably to be mistaken when writing.

Might want to include parts of dpkg in that tool.  No sense in
re-inventing the wheel, eh?

>         Second thing that I'd improve is a security one. I know that "emerge"
> is a very cared package, but it is a script. Suppose that someone
> commits portage with a emerge failure in its code (he forgot a comma
> !!)... if someone updates portage won't be able to update it again
> because it will fail ever and ever again... So I suggest to have a
> backuped emerge script that we are sure that worked (like the last
> emerge tool that was used), and if the new emerge tool is mistaken (so
> that user doesn't need to know python) only has to run "regenemerge" for
> example, and will have the latest emerge working tool.

It wouldn't have gotten off of the guy's test box I'd think.


My personal gripe is how slow emerge is on just plain old emerge-ish
things.  That we have to use things like eix to search is pathetic.
This NEVER happened in Debian.

I also am considering trying to adapt aptitude to Gentoo.  I think
aptitude is the best thing since...  anyways, I love aptitude and want
to make it portage-friendly.  Just having a command-line package
browser like aptitude in Gentoo would be awesome.

Now is the time to tell me how incredibly stupid I am for imagining
something like that.  Otherwise I might just fire up KDevelop, grab a
copy of aptitude, and start working.  I'm known to do things like
that.

>         If I have more ideas I'll tell ya.

Same here.

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