On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 20:17:40 -0500 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > The issue is that you need to fix autoconf before you can claim that | > any non-trivial test case works correctly. | | And how are you going to verify autoconf works perfectly without | testing it?
Can't. Dead easy to verify that it will break without testing it, though. Just look at the source. | The point I'm making is that the only thing required of *portage*, is | the prefix var being used internally, and handed down to the ebuilds. | | Ironing out the ebuild cruft is left to those who want it. Again, | where is the hold up for *portage*? That's rather short-sighted... Portage is irrelevant without the ebuilds. | What's the problem? Why the 101 holes before they even can attempt | it? If you're after shooting the idea down (as I suspect), state so | rather then death by a thousand cuts. Saves us time, really. | | Hell, haubi's patch already lays the ground work for testing it. I'm | not seeing why you're being negative about people even working on it. Because a botched solution is worse than no solution at all. You've seen the mess we end up with when people start working with a half-arsed initial setup. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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