On 2020-04-24, lego12...@yandex.ru <lego12...@yandex.ru> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:27:16PM -0500, Steven Lembark wrote: >> >> > portage must be in C and statically linked. >> >> Seems to argue in favor of a statically-linked dynamic language: The >> runtime compiler can be static with install scripts being a bit more >> malleable. > > The core of portage should be in C, imho.
Why? I've been running Gentoo on multiple machines (generally at least 4 or 5) for 15+ years now. I've never seen any problems that could be attributed to the fact that portage isn't written in C. -- Grant
