Hola,
I've been inspired by the local/global USE flag threads recently
posted by Doug (Cardoe), and it got me to thinking... I've recently
joined the pkgcore development effort, and was asked by Brian
(ferringb) what I'd like to hack on/what my niggles with portage are.
My personal one is why updates/ and binpkg mangling takes so long in
portage-$current. But I'd like to know, what are everyone elses?
I know that this topic have been rehashed since the dawn of
time^Wgentoo-dev, but these things get lost, opinions change... and
since last year, new and viable alternate package managers have
cropped up. So, basically I'd like to ask all on this list: - what
package manager features would make *your* life easier?
Personally, I'd like to see the following groups of changes happen one
way or another:
* Improve QA with/by:
- Detecting conflicting USE flags;
- Limiting the amount of times we need to call "die" in ebuilds.
Yes, that's a small list... which is why I'm sending this mail to
solicit even more ideas. :)
Comments, flames ("read the archives", "go jump in a pond", etc) and
whatever else is coming my way - hit it me with it! ;P
Best,
Elfyn
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