On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:49:31 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | No need for a glep as far as portage support goes anymore than Ciaran | needs a glep to change or add syntax highlighting in vim.
The difference is, Vim syntax scripts are well established, and there aren't any design issues to solve. Multiple repository support clearly *isn't* obvious, because the solution you've described is the wrong one. | There doesn't need to be a debate. This whole proposal doesn't care | about portage compatibility whatsoever and it's exactly this style of | thinking that slows down portage development (which everybody loves | to complain about so much). Sure it does. It cares about the way Portage is currently, and it cares about any reasonable future Portage changes. | As I said already, there will immediately be a bug asking for overlay | support. Portage already supports multiple in a form whether anybody | likes it or not. How they are supported and how they will change | should be of no concern to the glep. What should be of concern is | establishing a robust API between the readers and portage such that | future changes won't cause breakage. Ok, give me a list of every single future enhancement to Portage and I'll make sure the GLEP will be compatible with them. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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