> > In fact, portage is complete overkill and I refuse to allow it to be deployed > at work. Check my posting history for the rationale behind this. >
It is another 2 wrappers to facilitate matters, where there is already is a huge stack of wrappers: * gcc covers the linker * libtool covers gcc and ar * makefile configures it all * to unburden from makefile writing, it is generated by configure * configure is needed to be generated from configure.in * some other generations here that I skip * now there comes ebuild as the next wrapper to make building easier * on top of all there is emerge * really on top? What is the next level? How many languages are involved only to generate and install a C program! Maschine code, C, bash, m4, python, ... what else? How much knowlege is needed to debug this huge stack! I daily wonder all this still works so well. Al
