Andreas Sahlbach wrote:
The Gentoo guys prefer to build every open source project by themselves. Besides: building and installing a two, strictly separated steps, so no writing into the system is allowed (and will be prevented by the sandboxshell) during the build.
IMHO even if the sources of m2 beta3 were compilable, your build would be hardly a sandboxed one. Note that m2 will download more than 150 binary packages from the Internet, use them as build dependencies and later use them at runtime too.
The whole point about maven is that it comes in two pieces - an application, and a collection of binary packages amassed by maven developers and users.
For a completly sandboxed build you would have to compile all of these packages from source (a formidable task, especially some of those may reuqire maven2 to be built!), assemble a repository and make it available through a local web server, and use it as the remote repository for the bootstrap.
Your complaints about buildable beta release are vaild, but the whole idea of buliding m2 the Gentoo way seems to me ill advised. There is a serious incompatibility of philosophy here. If someone wants to do Java development on a Gentoo system, they can do it the Java way, not necessarily the Gentoo way, right?
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