On Tuesday 29 June 2010 20:08:34 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I mentioned this on -dev once when this topic came up. Thing is, > > portage is not the only package manager being used. Personally I think > > portage should be the official package manager and if you chose to use > > something else, you should know what not to do to the system. > > That's restrictive and un-Gentoo-like. The official package manager is > anything that follows the EAPI specs.
I wholeheartedly agree. There shouldn't even BE such a thing as a standard package manager, there should only be standards. Otherwise you get into the standard being "whatever portage is doing today" - a moving target at best -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
