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On 4/22/20 12:07 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> 
> i was joking.  i agree with you + mgorny.

I got that =)


> in fact, i think portage sucks so much it must be
> rewritten from scratch, in such a way that it has
> least run-time dependencies, so we stop worrying
> about upgrading other packages, such as python.
> 

sys-apps/pkgcore is a rewrite from scratch, although still in python. It
follows the PMS, but is unusable -- as any other rewrite would be --
because developers regularly commit things that only work in portage.