On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > That is why a link was posted for me to use github instead. I > do realize and understand that git and github are two different things > but it seems they can work together as well. It ended up that the info > I needed was on github but not to be found on any Gentoo site at the time.
Anything in /usr/portage that you can find on github is also on https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/, which is a Gentoo site. That's kind of the point of git - there are a bazillion tools available for it and it makes it very easy to clone a full repository with full history. It also lowers the bar to contribution. I get that you're frustrated with the change, and there are a few others that are as well, but thousands of people use Gentoo, and generally people only bother to post on lists when they're frustrated. We can't go into panic mode every time somebody raises a complaint, and ultimately everybody here is a volunteer. The complaints don't really bother me much personally, but I do get concerned that they'll discourage others from contributing. I can just ignore threads like these easily enough, but people get frustrated when they contribute and others just criticize. -- Rich
