Caleb Cushing wrote:
What on earth is going to be a "major visible improvement" to a
command
line based package manager that any average Gentoo user is going to
realise? The average user probably only uses a few commands: emerge
-u/p/a/v/--sync/package/world/system and then use
package.keywords/mask/unmask so there are really no fundamental
differences that the average user will notice
How about the speed of search's? the speed of resolving dependancy's?
how about the speed that it takes to calculate a dependancy listing
after you've already done it once? portage is SLOW.
So speed...
how about getting it to the point where it could be made to
incorporate a graphical frontend if wanted.
There are loads, i can name 3 off the top of my head, new ones are
always popping up in unsupported software in the forums as well.
how about providing me a list of packages that are masked instead of
making me read and unmask them one at a time.
That pretty much defeats the object of them being masked in the first place
So all you can really come up with is speed? If a power user yourself
can only come up with speed what is an ordinary user going to think
of... *sigh*
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