On 10/04/2010 12:50 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > > On 09/30/2010 09:36 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> as I've only recently "graduated to developer", I've got a question about >> this. Diego, your request makes perfect sense to me. But, so far I always >> thought "Python, portage, and gcc are the things that I really need to rely >> on, so whatever I do, I'll keep those stable." >> >> (My development machine(s) are also my real-life work machines.) > > As I do second these concerns, another thought: > > While /portage/ is vital to our distro (not only) for end users (including > devs doing their workwork on Gentoo systems), /repoman/ isn't. > > So - would it make sense to split repoman into its own ebuild? > > /haubi/
The thing is, parts of repoman are closely coupled to portage internals. So, if we split it out then in practice we'd end up having to do repoman version bumps to correspond with portage version bumps, which would eliminate any practical gain that we'd get from distributing it with a separate ebuild. -- Thanks, Zac
