On Friday 30 March 2007, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 20:42 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: > > i don't think that personal issues should be taken into account when it > > comes to choosing a new official package manager for gentoo. > > It's relevant in that people have to work with the developers of the > package manager. Unlike most other things in the portage tree, the > package manager ties very closely to the very definition of the > distribution itself. Hence, if people are unable to get along, then by > adopting a package manager like that, you inherently adopt the > developers of that package manager and all the personnel issues that > accompany it. > > Ideally, however, I agree with you that it should be based on technical > merits. The reality is that there are people involved. And people > always complicate things.
thanks seemant, preciously how i'd have put it if i could :) -mike
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