On Dec 31, 1:51 am, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Disclaimer: I am a Debian user, on the way of becoming a Debian Developer
>
> I agree with Michael, to keep it simple stupid, as it is now. Maybe with my
> a simple improvements I suggested here:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/6b9684...
>
> Nice thing about this is that there is no database, nothing. Just
> plain files, that
> can be fixed by hand.
>
> How would portage improve this?
Note I initially posted this privately to Ondrej with a disclaimer
about not starting
rant wars but he encouraged me to post it list-wide.
Disclaimer: I am a Gentoo user which should really become the
maintainer
of several packages :) [real life commitment permitting]
I am just feeling that spkg is re-inventing/has re-invented the wheel.
On the other hand full blown portage is certainly too bloated - did I
mention
anything about subsets of portage?
I think there should be a kind of portage-redux for stuff that are not
full fledged
Linux meta-distribution. Modular xorg comes to mind as something that
has pretty
much become a distribution and could use such system. Portage-redux
definitely
doesn't belong to this list.
Since my understanding is that you can actually use dpkg to compile
debian from
source it could probably be applied there as well.
The only improvement that I can see would be an ease of integration in
Gentoo
which is a bit too Gentoo-centric to be of any real benefit to anyone
else. More
discipline in the packaging is probably what is most needed at the
moment. And
you can package stuff as badly in ebuilds than you can in spkgs so
that wouldn't
really enforce discipline. So pragmatically none.
Best regards,
Francois
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