Just two points: - standards should not be set by the primary package manager - the primary package manager does not have to be developed by Gentoo.
More about it below: maillog: 20/05/2006-14:54:18(+0200): Paul de Vrieze types > The primary package manager is the package manager that sets the > standards for the tree. All ebuilds in the tree must function > with the primary package manager. As the primary package manager > sets the standard it does not have to maintain compatibility with > other package managers. I pesonally hate the way this sounds. It implies that the package manager comes before the standards while it should be the other way around. Plus, it would not solve the main problem -- that there are no set standards for the tree. You accept the GLEP like this and there will continue to be no standards. The process should go like this: 1. Standars are set (by the council or whatever). 2. They are implemented in the official package manager. 3. Other package managers follow suit. Take the application servers as a good example. You have Java Servlet Technology, and JavaServer Pages Technology. So far, so good. These are developed by Sun. And you also have Apache Tomcat which is the official reference implementation. So you have the standards set by Sun, and you have an open community implementing them in the "official" container *later*. And pay attention that these are not maintained by the same organization. And what about the web. You have the W3C that sets the standards for web pages. And you have no single browser to implement them all. So, in order for a package manager to be recognized by Gentoo it should not implement *all* standards. I.e. if you have news delivered with the tree, you could support a package manager that cannot read the news as primary. After all this is not a major feature and does not contradict "All ebuilds should work with the primary package manager". And you can have a separate news reader the cooperates with the primary package manager or not. -- \ Georgi Georgiev \ Ignorance is when you don't know anything \ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / and somebody finds it out. / \ http://www.gg3.net/ \ \
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