On 3/30/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
a good topic for the next council meeting i think would be to start up a spec of requirements that a package manager must satisfy before it'd be an official package manager for Gentoo ... off the top of my head: - the main developers need to be Gentoo developers - source code hosted on Gentoo infrastructure - compatible "emerge" and "ebuild" binaries -mike
The Comments of a Gentoo User Upon a Minor Point Made by Vapier The first condition you list is a sort of nativism that I for one would expect not to find in a successful copyleft project created on the Internet. Why should the code Gentoo uses be written by Gentoo developers? Nobody seems to have a problem with using someone else's C compiler and installation tools (gcc, autoconf, automake). Resistance to a package manager on the grounds that, "It wasn't originally written by us!" could perhaps push technical arguments that actually matter into the background. Sincerely, Christopher Covington -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
