On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:20:48 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 06:37 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Nor are most Gentoo projects controlled by Gentoo. Try asking for a > > new feature in Portage sometime if you think that Gentoo has any > > say over how projects are developed... > > Uhh... > > Bug #167667 > Bug #167668 > > Just because the features that you ask for aren't done, don't mean > features aren't added on request. Sure, my feature requests are much > simpler than "add some new ability to dependency resolution" to > implement, but they prove the point that no matter how much bitching > and whining people do, the portage team *is* responsive and does fill > requests in a timely manner. It's even easier if you provide patches.
No, they fill *some* requests in a timely manner, whilst ignoring many things that the tree, developers and users really need. > The EAPI=0 document was supposed to be a QA project. What it is now, > I have no idea. While the current PMS project is not what we asked > for and *is* outside the scope of Gentoo, due to our wishing to still > *have* a specification of EAPI=0, we are wanting to look at other > possibilities for getting one done. What the Council is interested > in is a specification of expected behavior of an EAPI=0 compatible > package manager. At this point, I don't give a damn who writes it or > what implementation, if any, matches it 100%. I am pretty sure it'll > be *very* close to current portage functionality, side-effects and > bugs excluded, of course. We asked for a specification. If the PMS > team is unable or unwilling to provide us with what we asked under > the terms we asked for it, we're going to pursue other options. We > can't control PMS< but we also don't have to sit around and do > nothing to reach the Council's goal of an approved specification for > EAPI=0, a goal which I believe some people lost sight of some time > ago. A specification that no-one follows or that is full of inaccuracies is worthless. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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