-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Loeser wrote: > This is the exact problem I'm trying to address. You'll never get all > of the projects to agree, since they all want to go in slightly > different directions and do different things. All three are great > ideas, but we should only support the one that is official for Gentoo, > and not make any changes to the tree. (Note: changes here is any > modification or addition of files in the tree for the sole purpose of > working with an alternate package manager)
I don't see any reason to include support for a non-official package manager in the official gentoo repo either (given that they can host their own repository and include whatever they want). For the sake of interoperability, I hope that the developers of these separate package managers can come together and agree on some specifications, but that's a topic for another list... > Either way, I think this is something we should hold off on for now, and > have the council decide upon. We shouldn't just make these changes > without having some discussion taking place (the flamewar on g-dev@ is > not a discussion, and is only a small minority of people giving their > two cents). > > Whatever the decision is, the addition of another package manager makes > QA harder to do since we have to consider all of them. Adding a new > package manager and saying we don't support it, nor are we sure if we > will ever support it, does not seem acceptable at all to me. The > decision should be made if we plan on supporting it so we can work on > actually supporting it, or if this should be a completely separate > project and they can work on their own to make changes to ebuilds which > support their own functionality. Yeah, it seems like this type of decision needs to be made by the council, and I hope that they decide against it. Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEapB8/ejvha5XGaMRAvJOAJ9D9bkg7UoMynFNND+S8UJfLurDlwCeLeJH EzwX3OXW21TjqytMynWfwUE= =aGr0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
