On Friday 30 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Instead, you have to worry about Gentoo infra people pulling commit > access under the guise of 'security measures' and refusing devrel > requests to restore it.
agreed, that was complete bs ... it has since been rectified > But you're not addressing the issue. If the Council requests a new > feature in Portage, will it happen? if the Council felt the need to force something in, then yes, it would happen > and other package managers, as plenty of people will tell you. i'm perfectly happy keeping the tree open to alternative package managers ... i'm not perfectly happy releasing control of the main package manager, whichever that may be in the future > > > > "emerge" is a brand name for Gentoo and while you can complain > > > > about lack of features all you want, dropping portage and > > > > installing a different package manager with a completely > > > > different interface will surely causes a huge pita for everyone > > > > > > In the same way that "dselect" is a brand name for Debian? > > > > you're confusing dselect with apt-get which is a well-known name > > aspect of Debian > > Not at all. dselect used to be a flagship Debian application in the > same way that Portage is for Gentoo. predates my Linux experience ... i'd note however that apt is fully "in-house" with Debian -mike
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