On 26/01/2014 21:29, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 26.01.2014 19:04, schrieb hasufell: >> So, not sure where your optimism comes from. But... some devs are >> interested in starting from scratch or picking up pkgcore (which would >> be the most sane thing to do IMO). > > please do. Please please pretty please. > > > > >
This topic came up on -dev two weeks ago, many people share your sentiment. But TheRealWorld intrudes, so the general consensus that was reached is - pkgcore must first be gotten to EAPI-5; this is a non-trivial amount of work - portage is never[1] going to go away [1] never is defined as "for the foreseeable future" -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com