On Friday 16 March 2007 02:47, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:40:05 +0100 Jakob Buchgraber > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So why don't you start rewriting, refactoring and improving the > > portage source? It definitely doesn't make sense to create a > > competing package management system. > > Because it's far simpler to start from scratch. Refactoring is only > possible if the initial design is at least vaguely sane. With things as > they are now, making a change is nigh on impossible because there's no > way of evaluating the impact.
That's not entirely true. The main trouble with refactoring portage code is that there is no defined public API and so even the littlest changes are likely to break things in gentoolkit and several of the portage gui front end packages. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
