> We would like to start with one of the easy targets ah, but you did not - you started with the most challenging example (rust/cargo)
i suppose that is great; because that work is being done (AFAIK) by no one in this work-group - if they succeed, all the better for us - maybe we can ignore rust for a while and simply accept the GNU team's solution o/c what would be even better? .... if those people would then join us on this mailing list to tackle the other dozens of examples On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:02:30 -0400 Richard wrote: > Would a few of you like to form a committee to choose one? I think > that would be useful. You could have discussions on another list > specifically for this. this work-group already is that committee, de-facto - it was formed for exactly this sort of work - appointments are not needed, only volunteers are; but we dont have many of those - ie: gnutoo and i would probably just appoint ourselves, due to lack of willing candidates (just as we have already taken it upon ourselves to begin categorizing and hacking these) - this list has barely been used in the past 5 years - this is the sort of activity it desperately to re-invigorate its usefulness to the community we have already done much of the needed research on the parabola bug tracker; though, it really should have happened on this mailing list - the only reason that information has not made it onto this mailing list until now, is because there are no other distros interested in helping - the few other distros which had any desire to address these package managers, simply chose to discard them - IMHO, that is a fine option; but obviously, none will ever become liberated that way - trisquel may be the only one of those with the desire to reinstate them in a liberated form On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:02:30 -0400 Richard wrote: > Can you set yourselves a deadline of 3 weeks to find which are the > easier targets, and report? i definitely like that plan - it feels like movement