Petteri Räty wrote:
>> Please note, I'm not talking about applications like portage or pkgcore,
>> just the ebuild text files, which I understand have one maintainer?
>
> Many ebuilds are in maintained by a bunch of people via herds.
>
That's not really an issue for a db app.
>> I appreciate that
Marius Mauch wrote:
>> I'm a bit confused about all the portage tree stuff. There's just
>> under 25,000 ebuilds, which are maintained by about 100 devs (not
>> sure of exact number, taken from a forum post.) I guess what I'm
>> asking is why this isn't just a database.
>
> Please define "database
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> The idea of restricting access to specific parts of gentoo-x86 has come
> up many times. It doesn't fix anything and actually makes some things
> worse. Committers still have access to wherever they can commit, so they
> can work whatever evil they want there without needin
