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On 2020-04-24, lego12239@yandex.ru <lego12239@yandex.ru> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:27:16PM -0500, Steven Lembark wrote:
>> 
>> >   portage must be in C and statically linked.
>> 
>> Seems to argue in favor of a statically-linked dynamic language: The 
>> runtime compiler can be static with install scripts being a bit more 
>> malleable.
>
> The core of portage should be in C, imho.

Why?  I've been running Gentoo on multiple machines (generally at
least 4 or 5) for 15+ years now.  I've never seen any problems that
could be attributed to the fact that portage isn't written in C.

--
Grant