From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D740138350 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99E4DE0ABF; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:46:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [159.69.161.202]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C261E09D0 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jS3Lc-0008P5-Cz for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:46:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo dead? Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:46:43 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20200421165803.GB187193@redacted> <11506562.O9o76ZdvQC@peak> <20200421190145.GF187193@redacted> <20200422161455.GA23147@legohost> <20200423152716.51799a42.lembark@wrkhors.com> <20200424092239.GA16833@legohost> <20200424180546.GA16597@legohost> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply X-Archives-Salt: c1ed8291-9d1f-462b-8be5-262179469322 X-Archives-Hash: 70a3170727e5374fa9791fe3faf39183 On 2020-04-24, lego12239@yandex.ru wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 01:34:39PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2020-04-24, lego12239@yandex.ru wrote: >> > 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. > > I don't have such experience. I use gentoo/funtoo for a less period, but > on more machines(servers and desktops). And i catched one or two > (don't remember exactly) situations where emerge was broken. But was it broken _because_it_wasn't_written_in_C_? I've written a _lot_ of C, and a _lot_ of Python over the years. If it were written in C, it would be broken worse and more often. -- Grant