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On 04/26/2015 06:49 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I can't figure why the portage devs persist with the
> current obtuse method.

I suspect that they do what they do because they're overworked and
underpaid -- exactly like all the rest of us :)

I suspect also that the problem with portage has already been described
succinctly in one of Neil's taglines.  Can't remember which one, though.