Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes:
> So, kicking the overworked portage team with stuff like "Gentoo has a > lousy package manager" is not helpful and certainly violates the CoC. > I don't see that here. +1 > On the other hand, that doesn't mean that we all need to line up and > drink the kool aide and say that the behavior pointed out in the > original message is desired behavior. Is the kool_aide spike with 151 rum? just curious.... > We can acknowledge that bugs exist without lining up with signs > demanding their immediate fix. The portage team does great work, but > the fact that package runtime dependencies can vary so much compared > to a binary distro greatly complicates the dependency-resolution > problem. So do some of our package-maintenance practices, and those > are being looked at right now. DAG nabbit, I thought I understood the problem and then lost focus? > Just doing that alone would probably triage a > large number of issues that confuse users which makes them somewhat > happier and cuts down on list traffic. and take our fun away? Now you're moving to my side of the installer issue? ;-) James
