On Saturday 15 December 2007 20:00:54 Grant wrote: > > > The real blocker for features that I'd like Gentoo to support is > > > Portage. There is only 1½ people working on it and changing anything in > > > it is hard because Portage is a horrible mess. There's plenty of > > > activity in the tree but new desired features cannot be used in the > > > tree until Portage supports them. It also doesn't make matters better > > > that over the years all sorts of weird hacks (that now have to be > > > supported) have been added to the tree instead of waiting for proper > > > solutions. Most people who are capable of helping to improve Portage > > > just don't want to touch it. > > > > Would you say that portage is the main block in the way of Gentoo's > > continued progress? > > Actually I guess that's pretty much exactly what you said. I didn't > realize portage is where the problem lies. In fact, I thought we were > all still proud of portage I'm going to think about this some.
It all depends on what kind of features you're interested in. The features I happen to be interested in requires ebuild changes (which means that me using another package manager doesn't help) *and* requires package manager support before said ebuild changes can happen. Therefore for me Portage is a blocker... -- Bo Andresen
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