Wow, this sounds really interesting. IMHO replacing our homegrown SPKG system with a more general and commonly used system would be great. Reusing code, and all that. It would also allow us to use the power of `emerge -C` to, say, uninstall SPKGs (though I'm not sure how exactly it works - looking at the Gentoo documentation about ebuilds, it doesn't seem like the ebuild file specifies exactly how to uninstall... does `emerge` just guess based on what the install script put into the system, what to take remove from it?) >From your discussion on github, though, I take it we'd actually be forced to ship our own compilers and everything, because gentoo-prefix just works that way. Is that right? (After all, gentoo-prefix is supposed to basically be the install system for an OS distribution, not just a group of packages...) That doesn't seem so great. I think most people would agree that Sage is huge enough as it is...
Anyway, do keep us posted! -Keshav -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
