On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 03/07/2018 12:52 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > > > > I'm really not happy with the tone of this email, so I'm going to > > comment on it a bit. > > > > Ok, it would have benefited from a do-I-sound-like-a-dick proofread. I > don't want to sound discouraging because this is an area with lots of > room for improvement. A better conclusion: > > Ultimately, people want to integrate the various PMs with portage > because portage is pretty good at keeping your system reliable, > up-to-date, and secure. The language-specific PMs on the other hand only > care about ease of use and how fast they can get bleeding-edge releases > to you. Having both would be ideal, but if we simply shell out to the > language-specific PM, then that would sidestep the good parts of portage > making the integration pointless. The time and attention involved in > ebuild packaging turn out to be critical parts of the product. > > I really appreciate this reply. I also think that portage provides a lot of value (particularly for complex projects that are perhaps not so well suited for use with the less featureful tooling.) -A
