On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 7:35 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 4/22/20 11:22 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:01 PM, Consus con...@ftml.net wrote: > > > > > Yeah, mgorny likes to do some provocative stuff like forking Portage. > > > > patching P*****E is heretic, and forking it is > > outright blasphemous. > > For everyone complaining about how long emerge @world takes, and about > the incomprehensible error messages -- this fork was a step towards > fixing that. Portage does some slow, unpredictable, undocumented magic > when resolving dependencies that it never should have done in the first > place. Developers using portage then make commits that appear to work > with portage, but won't work in any other PMS-compliant package manager, > and often don't work in portage itself when given slightly different > command-line options. > > Portage was forked because the current maintainers insist on leaving it > broken to "avoid the phone calls." There are still problems, but this > way people don't realize they're portage's fault. i was joking. i agree with you + mgorny. 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. e.g. perhaps gne (gne is not emerge) should better be statically linked (no stupid python run-time that freaks us every time we upgrade python). just my thought. but mgorny knows much better than me most likely. i like his work. and i hope politics around emerge/portage gets dropped.
