On 4/22/20 12:14 PM, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 04:07:52PM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: >> in fact, i think portage sucks so much it must be >> rewritten from scratch, in such a way that it has >> least run-time dependencies, so we stop worrying >> about upgrading other packages, such as python. > > Yes. And yes again :-). +1 > portage must be in C and statically linked. > python is a strange dependency. >
Paludis was a C++ package manager, but is dead now. No one's willing to work on these things when ::gentoo is portage-only.