portage is horrid. i hate it more every time i use it. and it doesn't work. revdep rebuild is proof.
it's not clear to me that this is gentoo's fault. linux and gnu together are one heck of a difficult place for a distribution to live. but replicating portage would seem to me to be a big mistake. not only does the plan 9 community lack the resources to maintain 30 different versions of /bin/cp (or whatever), much less portage redux, it will encourage gnu/linux habits, because that's what it's built for. we should build something that encourages a simplier system, a system plan 9 people would really want. - erik
